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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: they had left so recently, a huge pillar of dark smoke rising
high into the clear, blue atmosphere. "My habitation is gone to
wreck," said Wayland, immediately conjecturing the cause of the
explosion. "I was a fool to mention the doctor's kind intentions
towards my mansion before that limb of mischief, Flibbertigibbet;
I might have guessed he would long to put so rare a frolic into
execution. But let us hasten on, for the sound will collect the
country to the spot."
So saying, he spurred his horse, and Tressilian also quickening
his speed, they rode briskly forward.
"This, then, was the meaning of the little imp's token which he
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