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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: pursued his occult experiments. "He is of those," she added,
"who sit up and watch by night that they may commit iniquity.
Evil was the chance which sent hither a man whose mixed speech of
earthly wealth and unearthly or superhuman knowledge hath in it
what does so especially captivate my poor father. Well spoke the
good Master Holdforth--and, methought, not without meaning that
those of our household should find therein a practical use.
'There be those,' he said, 'and their number is legion, who will
rather, like the wicked Ahab, listen to the dreams of the false
prophet Zedekiah, than to the words of him by whom the Lord has
spoken.' And he further insisted--'Ah, my brethren, there be many
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