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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: me in failing to send the auxiliary aid he promised. Let me tell
thee, Edith, thou mayest live to prefer a true Turk to a false
Scot."
"No--never!" answered Edith--"not should Richard himself embrace
the false religion, which he crossed the seas to expel from
Palestine."
"Thou wilt have the last word," said Richard, "and thou shalt
have it. Even think of me what thou wilt, pretty Edith. I shall
not forget that we are near and dear cousins."
So saying, he took his leave in fair fashion, but very little
satisfied with the result of his visit.
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