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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: Sibyl Laneham, wife of Master Robert Laneham--"
"Clerk to the Council-chamber door," said Varney; "why, she is
inexcusable, having had experience how to have ordered her
matters better. But who were those, a man and a woman, I think,
who rode so hastily up the hill before me even now? Do they
belong to your company?"
Wayland was about to hazard a reply to this alarming inquiry,
when the little diablotin again thrust in his oar.
"So please you," he said, coming close up to Varney, and speaking
so as not to be overheard by his companions, "the man was our
devil major, who has tricks enough to supply the lack of a
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