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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: "Aha! Master Michael, are you there with your bears?" said
Foster, with a grim smile; "and is this the knowledge you pretend
of my concernments? How know you now there is such a person IN
RERUM NATURA, and that I have not been putting a jape upon you
all this time?"
"Thou put a jape on me, thou sodden-brained gull?" answered
Lambourne, nothing daunted. "Why, dark and muddy as thou
think'st thyself, I would engage in a day's space to sec as clear
through thee and thy concernments, as thou callest them, as
through the filthy horn of an old stable lantern."
At this moment their conversation was interrupted by a scream
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