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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: and uncertain reports, which were received and repeated, but
without much credit being attached to them.
On the evening of which we treat, the new and highly-decorated
suite of rooms were, for the first time, illuminated, and that
with a brilliancy which might have been visible half-a-dozen
miles off, had not oaken shutters, carefully secured with bolt
and padlock, and mantled with long curtains of silk and of
velvet, deeply fringed with gold, prevented the slightest gleam
of radiance front being seen without.
The principal apartments, as we have seen, were four in number,
each opening into the other. Access was given to them by a large
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