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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: the person whom I speak of, doubted not that the excess of his
attachment, the various acquisitions of his mind, his many and
amiable qualities, had overcome the natural horror which his
destined bride must have entertained at an exterior so dreadfully
inauspicious."
"And did they judge truly?" said Isabella.
"You shall hear. He, at least, was fully aware of his own
deficiency; the sense of it haunted him like a phantom. 'I am,'
was his own expression to me,--I mean to a man whom he trusted,--
'I am, in spite of what you would say, a poor miserable outcast,
fitter to have been smothered in the cradle than to have been
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