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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: the heart to quit that convenient old religion, which you could
slip off or on as easily as your glove? Do I not remember how
you were wont to carry your conscience to confession, as duly as
the month came round? and when thou hadst it scoured, and
burnished, and whitewashed by the priest, thou wert ever ready
for the worst villainy which could be devised, like a child who
is always readiest to rush into the mire when he has got his
Sunday's clean jerkin on."
"Trouble not thyself about my conscience," said Foster; "it is a
thing thou canst not understand, having never had one of thine
own. But let us rather to the point, and say to me, in one word,
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