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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: speak on the square, I must needs say no. If you want a
hypocrite, you may take Anthony Foster, who, from his childhood,
had some sort of phantom haunting him, which he called religion,
though it was that sort of godliness which always ended in being
great gain. But I have no such knack of it."
"Well," replied Varney, "if thou hast no hypocrisy, hast thou not
a nag here in the stable?"
"Ay, sir," said Lambourne, "that shall take hedge and ditch with
my Lord Duke's best hunters. Then I made a little mistake on
Shooter's Hill, and stopped an ancient grazier whose pouches were
better lined than his brain-pan, the bonny bay nag carried me
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