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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: allegiance and privilege, he would have launched them at his
head, without respect to the consequences. As it was, he was
compelled to turn his course backward to the castle; and there he
remained for full half a day invisible and inaccessible even to
Mysie, sequestered in his own peculiar dungeon, where he sat
burnishing a single pewter plate and whistling "Maggie Lauder"
six hours without intermission.
The issue of this unfortunate requisition had shut against Caleb
all resources which could be derived from Wolf's Hope and its
purlieus, the El Dorado, or Peru, from which, in all former
cases of exigence, he had been able to extract some assistance.
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