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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: parish--all the world--will soon discover to what poverty has
reduced Richard Tinto.:
A sudden thought here struck me. I had observed that our
landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new
velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets.
"What," said I, drawing my right hand, with the forefinger and
thumb pressed together, nimbly from my right haunch to my left
shoulder, "you have condescended to resume the
paternal arts to which you were first bred--long stitches, ha,
Dick?"
He repelled this unlucky conjecture with a frown and a pshaw,
The Bride of Lammermoor |
