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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: would be a base requital to the love she bears me."
"Well, my lord," said Varney, "your lordship is a wise and an
honourable man, and skilled in those high points of romantic
scruple which are current in Arcadia perhaps, as your nephew,
Philip Sidney, writes. I am your humble servitor--a man of this
world, and only happy that my knowledge of it, and its ways, is
such as your lordship has not scorned to avail yourself of. Now
I would fain know whether the obligation lies on my lady or on
you in this fortunate union, and which has most reason to show
complaisance to the other, and to consider that other's wishes,
conveniences, and safety?"
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