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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: him to refuse, since he wishes to marry another woman and she
another man?"
"And you believe seriously," said Bucklaw, "that he is going to
marry the foreign lady we heard of?"
"You heard yourself," answered Craigengelt, "what Captain
Westenho said about it, and the great preparation made for their
blythesome bridal."
"Captain Westenho," replied Bucklaw, "has rather too much of
your own cast about, Craigie, to make what Sir William would call
a 'famous witness.' He drinks deep, plays deep, swears deep, and
I suspect can lie and cheat a little into the bargain; useful
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