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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: depredations of others."
"What needs all this talk, Master Varney?" said the lady, in
reply. "You would have me believe that my noble lord is
jealous. Suppose it true, I know a cure for jealousy."
"Indeed, madam?" said Varney.
"It is," replied the lady, "to speak the truth to my lord at all
times--to hold up my mind and my thoughts before him as pure as
that polished mirror--so that when he looks into my heart, he
shall only see his own features reflected there."
"I am mute, madam answered Varney; "and as I have no reason to
grieve for Tressilian, who would have my heart's blood were he
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