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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: Ay, count them, lad," said he, as Foster received the gold with a
grim smile, "and add to them the goodly remembrance he gave last
night to Janet."
"How's this? how's this?" said Anthony Foster hastily; "gave he
gold to Janet?"
"Ay, man, wherefore not?--does not her service to his fair lady
require guerdon?"
"She shall have none on't," said Foster; "she shall return it. I
know his dotage on one face is as brief as it is deep. His
affections are as fickle as the moon."
"Why, Foster, thou art mad--thou dost not hope for such good
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