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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: peculiarly galling to Caleb, who had been wont to exercise over
them the same sweeping authority in levying contributions which
was exercised in former times in England, when "the royal
purveyors, sallying forth from under the Gothic portcullis to
purchase provisions with power and prerogative, instead of money,
brought home the plunder of an hundred markets, and all that
could be seized from a flying and hiding country, and deposited
their spoil in an hundred caverns."
Caleb loved the memory and resented the downfall of that
authority, which mimicked, on a petty scale, the grand
contributions exacted by the feudal sovereigns. And as he fondly
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