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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: in all their hoods and dresses, so as the Roman invention of good
and bad daemons and guardian angels particularly assigned, is
called by them ane ignorant mistake, springing only from this
originall. They call this reflex man a Co-Walker, every way like
the man, as a twin-brother and companion haunting him as his
shadow, as is that seen and known among men resembling the
originall, both before and after the originall is dead, and was
also often seen of old to enter a hous, by which the people knew
that the person of that liknes was to visit them within a few
days. This copy, echo, or living picture, goes at last to his
own herd. It accompanied that person so long and frequently for
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