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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: "Varney, forbear!" said the Earl.
"Nay, my lord, you must give me leave to conclude my picture.
--Sussex governs England--the Queen's health fails--the
succession is to be settled--a road is opened to ambition more
splendid than ambition ever dreamed of. You hear all this as you
sit by the hob, under the shade of your hall-chimney. You then
begin to think what hopes you have fallen from, and what
insignificance you have embraced; and all that you might look
babies in the eyes of your fair wife oftener than once a
fortnight,"
"I say, Varney," said the Earl, "no more of this. I said not
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