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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: remembrance for ever!"
So saying, she tore in pieces Leicester's letter, and stamped, in
the extremity of impatience, as if she would have annihilated the
minute fragments into which she had rent it.
"Bear witness," said Varney, collecting himself, "she hath torn
my lord's letter, in order to burden me with the scheme of his
devising; and although it promises nought but danger and trouble
to me, she would lay it to my charge, as if I had any purpose of
mine own in it."
"Thou liest, thou treacherous slave!" said the Countess in spite
of Janet's attempts to keep her silent, in the sad foresight that
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