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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: servants proclaim it as I was on the great staircase--I heard the
directions given to clear out the chapel."
"Spare me, Mr. Ratcliffe," replied the luckless bride; "and from
the state in which you see me, judge of the cruelty of these
questions."
"Married? to Sir Frederick Langley? and this night? It must not
cannot--shall not be."
"It MUST be, Mr. Ratcliff, or my father is ruined."
"Ah! I understand," answered Ratcliffe; "and you have sacrificed
yourself to save him who--But let the virtue of the child atone
for the faults of the father it is no time to rake them up.--What
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