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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: she was peremptory in desiring to be conducted. This was readily
granted; and five or six young men agreed to attend him as an
escort. Hobbie was not of the number. Almost heart-broken by
the events of the day, and his final disappointment, he returned
moodily home to take such measures as he could for the sustenance
and protection of his family, and to arrange with his neighbours
the farther steps which should be adopted for the recovery of
Grace Armstrong. The rest of the party dispersed in different
directions, as soon as they had crossed the morass. The outlaw
and his mother watched them from the tower, until they entirely
disappeared.
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