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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: her frae my hand haill and sound."
Hobbie advanced eagerly, to meet his betrothed bride. Earnscliff
followed more slowly, to guard against treachery. Suddenly
Hobbie slackened his pace in the deepest mortification, while
that of Earnscliff was hastened by impatient surprise. It was
not Grace Armstrong, but Miss Isabella Vere, whose liberation had
been effected by their appearance before the tower.
"Where is Grace? where is Grace Armstrong?" exclaimed Hobbie,
in the extremity of wrath and indignation.
"Not in my hands," answered Westburnflat; "ye may search the
tower, if ye misdoubt me."
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