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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: aware that so much of his by-play had been audible there. "Well,
Caleb, my old friend, is there any chance of supper?" said the
Master of Ravenswood.
"CHANCE of supper, your lordship?" said Caleb, with an
emphasis of strong scorn at the implied doubt. "How should there
be ony question of that, and us in your lordship's house?
Chance of supper, indeed! But ye'll no be for butcher-meat?
There's walth o' fat poultry, ready either for spit or brander.
The fat capon, Mysie!" he added, calling out as boldly as if such
a thing had been in existence.
"Quite unnecessary," said Bucklaw, who deemed himself bound in
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