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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: reached his ears. The minister--he had got his presentation from
the late lord, but they had quarrelled about teinds; the
brewster's wife--she had trusted long, and the bill was aye
scored up, and unless the dignity of the family should actually
require it, it would be a sin to distress a widow woman. None
was so able--but, on the other hand, none was likely to be less
willing--to stand his friend upon the present occasion, than
Gibbie Girder, the man of tubs and barrels already mentioned, who
had headed the insurrection in the matter of the egg and butter
subsidy. "But a' comes o' taking folk on the right side, I
trow," quoted Caleb to himself; "and I had ance the ill hap to
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