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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: "I pray you to be patient, madam," answered Ravenswood; "my
answer must come from her own lips. Once more, Miss Lucy Ashton,
I am that Ravenswood to whom you granted the solemn engagement
which you now desire to retract and cancel."
Lucy's bloodless lips could only falter out the words, "It was
my mother."
"She speaks truly," said Lady Ashton, "it WAS I who,
authorised alike by the laws of God and man, advised her, and
concurred with her, to set aside an unhappy and precipitate
engagement, and to annul it by the authority of Scripture
itself."
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