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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: "You have probably witnessed many changes," said the Lord
Keeper; "but your experience must have taught you to expect
them."
"It has taught me to endure them, my lord," was the reply.
"Yet you knew that they must needs arrive in the course of
years?" said the statesman.
"Ay; as I knew that the stump, on or beside which you sit, once
a tall and lofty tree, must needs one day fall by decay, or by
the axe; yet I hoped my eyes might not witness the downfall of
the tree which overshadowed my dwelling."
"Do not suppose," said the Lord Keeper, "that you will lose any
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