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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: Lucy, so readily as usual. If he has no resources, how is he to
exist in this waste country, living, as he does, at such a
distance from mankind? and if he has the means of securing
occasional assistance, will not the very suspicion that he is
possessed of them, expose him to plunder and assassination by
some of our unsettled neighbours?"
"But you forget that they say he is a warlock," said Nancy
Ilderton.
"And, if his magic diabolical should fail him," rejoined her
sister, "I would have him trust to his magic natural, and thrust
his enormous head, and most preternatural visage, out at his door
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