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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: horsemen. "Close to her bridle-rein--ay, close to her bridle-
rein! Wisely saith the holy man, 'By this also you may know that
woman hath dominion over all men'; and without this lass would
not our ruin have been a'thegither fulfilled."
With a heart fraught with such sad auguries did Caleb return to
his necessary duties at Wofl's Crag, as soon as he could no
longer distinguish the object of his anxiety among the group fo
riders, which diminished in the distance.
In the mean time the party pursued their route joyfully. Having
once taken his resolution, the Master of Ravenswood was not of a
character to hesitate or pause upon it. He abandoned himself to
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