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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: marble figure and the living suppliant. At length, the large
drops which gathered on his eye-lashes compelled him to draw his
hand across them.
"I thought," he said, "that tears and I had done; but we shed
them at our birth, and their spring dries not until we are in our
graves. But no melting of the heart shall dissolve my
resolution. I part here, at once, and for ever, with all of
which the memory" (looking to the tomb), "or the presence" (he
pressed Isabella's hand), "is dear to me.--Speak not to me!
attempt not to thwart my determination! it will avail nothing;
you will hear of and see this lump of deformity no more. To you
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