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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "Do so, and deserve favour. Stay--ere thou goest fill me a cup
of wine--not out of that flask, sirrah," as Lambourne was pouring
out from that which Alasco had left half finished, "fetch me a
fresh one."
Lambourne obeyed, and Varney, after rinsing his mouth with the
liquor, drank a full cup, and said, as he took up a lamp to
retreat to his sleeping apartment, "It is strange--I am as little
the slave of fancy as any one, yet I never speak for a few
minutes with this fellow Alasco, but my mouth and lungs feel as
if soiled with the fumes of calcined arsenic--pah!"
So saying, he left the apartment. Lambourne lingered, to drink a
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