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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: Wolf's Crag was the court of the barony, Caleb prime minister at
Wolf's Crag; and it has ever been remarked that, though the
masculine subject who pays the taxes sometimes growls at the
courtiers by whom they are imposed, the said courtiers continue,
nevertheless, welcome to the fair sex, to whom they furnish the
newest small-talk and the earliest fashions. Both the dames
were, therefore, at once about old Caleb's neck, setting up their
throats together by way of welcome.
"Ay, sirs, Mr. Balderstone, and is this you? A sight of you is
gude for sair een. Sit down--sit down; the gudeman will be
blythe to see you--ye nar saw him sae cadgy in your life; but we
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