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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: holding so near a place to my lord's person, were she mine enemy.
Bear this truth in upon her as occasion offers, Anthony, and let
me alone for extolling you in her ear, and exalting you in her
opinion--KA ME, KA THEE--it is a proverb all over the world. The
lady must know her friends, and be made to judge of the power
they have of being her enemies; meanwhile, watch her strictly,
but with all the outward observance that thy rough nature will
permit. 'Tis an excellent thing that sullen look and bull-dog
humour of thine; thou shouldst thank God for it, and so should my
lord, for when there is aught harsh or hard-natured to be done,
thou dost it as if it flowed from thine own natural doggedness,
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