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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: prejudices, indeed, were easily enlisted on her side, and it was
no difficult matter to make him regard with horror the prospect
of a union betwixt the daughter of a God-fearing, professing, and
Presbyterian family of distinction and the heir of a bloodthirsty
prelatist and persecutor, the hands of whose fathers had been
dyed to the wrists in the blood of God's saints. This resembled,
in the divine's opinion, the union of a Moabitish stranger with a
daughter of Zion. But with all the more severe prejudices and
principles of his sect, Bide-the-Bent possessed a sound judgment,
and had learnt sympathy even in that very school of presecution
where the heart is so frequently hardened. In a private
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