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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: which came to me by tradition from my grandmother, who was a
party concerned in the scene of which I will now tell you."
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THE MIRROR.
CHAPTER I.
You are fond (said my aunt) of sketches of the society which has
passed away. I wish I could describe to you Sir Philip Forester,
the "chartered libertine" of Scottish good company, about the end
of the last century. I never saw him indeed; but my mother's
traditions were full of his wit, gallantry, and dissipation.
This gay knight flourished about the end of the seventeenth and
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