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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: winding and intricate paths, which, leading over ground that was
comparatively sound, admitted visitors to his residence. But
among the party which were assembled under Earnscliff's
directions, there was more than one person qualified to act as a
guide. For although the owner's character and habits of life
were generally known, yet the laxity of feeling with respect to
property prevented his being looked on with the abhorrence with
which he must have been regarded in a more civilized country. He
was considered, among his more peaceable neighbours, pretty much
as a gambler, cock-fighter, or horse-jockey would be regarded at
the present day; a person, of course, whose habits were to be
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