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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: crossed this principal approach, were, in like manner, choked up
and interrupted by piles of brushwood and billets, and in other
places by underwood and brambles. Besides the general effect of
desolation which is so strongly impressed whenever we behold the
contrivances of man wasted and obliterated by neglect, and
witness the marks of social life effaced gradually by the
influence of vegetation, the size of the trees and the
outspreading extent of their boughs diffused a gloom over the
scene, even when the sun was at the highest, and made a
proportional impression on the mind of those who visited it.
This was felt even by Michael Lambourne, however alien his habits
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