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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: "A new house, I suppose?" replied I.
"No, it's a new public, but it's an auld house; it was aye the
Leddy's jointure-house in the Croftangry folk's time. But Mr.
Treddles has fitted it up for the convenience of the country,
poor man, he was a public-spirited man when he had the means."
"Duntarkin a public-house!" I exclaimed.
"Ay!" said the fellow, surprised at my naming the place by its
former title; "ye'll hae been in this country before, I'm
thinking?"
"Long since," I replied. "And there is good accommodation at the
what-d'ye-call-'em arms, and a civil landlord?" This I said by
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