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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: with a downcast look and a gentle sigh.
"Dinna be cast down, bairns," said the grandmother, "we hae gude
friends that winna forsake us in adversity. There's Sir Thomas
Kittleloof is my third cousin by the mother's side, and he has
come by a hantle siller, and been made a knight-baronet into the
bargain, for being ane o' the commissioners at the Union."
"He wadna gie a bodle to save us frae famishing," said Hobbie;
"and, if he did, the bread that I bought wi't would stick in my
throat, when I thought it was part of the price of puir auld
Scotland's crown and independence."
"There's the Laird o' Dunder, ane o' the auldest families in
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