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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: tune and like my partner, I'll dance the hays yet with any merry
lass in Warwickshire that writes that unhappy figure four with a
round O after it."
If the Countess was overwhelmed with the garrulity of this good
dame, Wayland Smith, on his part, had enough to do to sustain and
parry,the constant attacks made upon him by the indefatigable
curiosity of his old acquaintance Richard Sludge. Nature had
given that arch youngster a prying cast of disposition, which
matched admirably with his sharp wit; the former inducing him to
plant himself as a spy on other people's affairs, and the latter
quality leading him perpetually to interfere, after he had made
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