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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "This is a miserable place for ye a'," said Hobbie, looking
around him; "I can sleep weel eneugh mysell outby beside the
naig, as I hae done mony a lang night on the hills; but how ye
are to put yoursells up, I canna see! And what's waur, I canna
mend it; and what's waur than a', the morn may come, and the day
after that, without your being a bit better off."
"It was a cowardly cruel thing," said one of the sisters, looking
round, "to harry a puir family to the bare wa's this gate."
"And leave us neither stirk nor stot," said the youngest brother,
who now entered, "nor sheep nor lamb, nor aught that eats grass
and corn."
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