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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: began to think it indispensable that he should look round for
some kind of protection against the coming storm. The timidity
of his temper induced him to adopt measures of compromise and
conciliation. The affair of the wild bull, properly managed,
might, he thought, be made to facilitate a personal communication
and reconciliation betwixt the Master and himself. He would then
learn, if possible, what his own ideas were of the extent of his
rights, and the means of enforcing them; and perhaps matters
might be brought to a compromise, where one party was wealthy and
the other so very poor. A reconciliation with Ravenswood was
likely to give him an opportunity to play his own game with the
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