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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: independent, too, of our knowing nothing of young Earnscliff's
inclinations, but by your own vivid conjectures and fancies--
besides all this, there is the fatal brawl!"
"When his father was killed?" said Lucy. "But that was very
long ago; and I hope we have outlived the time of bloody feud,
when a quarrel was carried down between two families from father
to son, like a Spanish game at chess, and a murder or two
committed in every generation, just to keep the matter from going
to sleep. We do with our quarrels nowadays as with our clothes;
cut them out for ourselves, and wear them out in our own day, and
should no more think of resenting our fathers' feuds, than of
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