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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "Of much, my son," replied the old man, "since it can show the
natural and probable course of events, although that course moves
in subordination to an Higher Power. Thus, in reviewing the
horoscope which your Lordship subjected to my skill, you will
observe that Saturn, being in the sixth House in opposition to
Mars, retrograde in the House of Life, cannot but denote long and
dangerous sickness, the issue whereof is in the will of Heaven,
though death may probably be inferred. Yet if I knew the name of
the party I would erect another scheme."
"His name is a secret," said the Earl; "yet, I must own, thy
prognostication hath not been unfaithful. He has been sick, and
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