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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: As sure as Heaven shall pity me,
I cannot tell what men they be. CHRISTABELLE.
The course of our story must here revert a little, to detail the
circumstances which had placed Miss Vere in the unpleasant
situation from which she was unexpectedly, and indeed
unintentionally liberated, by the appearance of Earnscliff and
Elliot, with their friends and followers, before the Tower of
Westburnflat.
On the morning preceding the night in which Hobbie's house was
plundered and burnt, Miss Vere was requested by her father to
accompany him in a walk through a distant part of the romantic
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