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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: and his ruined family--when you requested me to prevail on him to
do a thing most abhorrent to his nature--to forgive an injury and
remit a penalty--I stipulated that you should ask me no questions
concerning the sources of my influence--You found no reason to
distrust me then, do not distrust me now."
"But the extraordinary mode of life of this man," said Miss Vere;
"his seclusion--his figure--the deepness of mis-anthropy which he
is said to express in his language--Mr. Ratcliffe, what can I
think of him if he really possesses the powers you ascribe to
him?"
"This man, young lady, was bred a Catholic, a sect which affords
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