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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: "O, my bonny bairn," said the old dame (for, in the kindness of
her heart, she extended her parental style to all in whom she was
interested)---"You should beware mair than other folk--there's
been a heavy breach made in your house wi' your father's
bloodshed, and wi' law-pleas, and losses sinsyne;--and you are
the flower of the flock, and the lad that will build up the auld
bigging again (if it be His will) to be an honour to the country,
and a safeguard to those that dwell in it--you, before others,
are called upon to put yoursell in no rash adventures--for yours
was aye ower venturesome a race, and muckle harm they have got by
it."
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