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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: own eyes that phenomenon which he had frequently heard mentioned.
Two human figures (if that of the Dwarf could be termed such)
issued from the solitary abode of the Recluse, and stood as if in
converse together in the open air. The taller form then stooped,
as if taking something up which lay beside the door of the hut,
then both moved forward a little way, and again halted, as in
deep conference. All Hobbie's superstitious terrors revived on
witnessing this'spectacle. That the Dwarf would open his
dwelling to a mortal guest, was as improbable as that any one
would choose voluntarily to be his nocturnal visitor; and, under
full conviction that he beheld a wizard holding intercourse with
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