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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: hand to guilt, and his soul to misery. Saved once more by the
virtue of her who calls thee father, go hence, and may the pardon
and benefits I confer on thee prove literal coals of fire, till
thy brain is seared and scorched like mine!"
Ellieslaw left the chapel with a gesture of mute despair.
"Follow him, Hubert Ratcliffe," said the Dwarf, "and inform him
of his destiny. He will rejoice--for to breathe air and to
handle gold is to him happiness,"
"I understand nothing of all this," said Sir Frederick Langley;
"but we are here a body of gentlemen in arms and authority for
King James; and whether you really, sir, be that Sir Edward
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