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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: prosperity began to arise."
"D--n all such double-faced jades!" exclaimed Craigengelt,
heroically; "this I will say for John Craigengelt, that he is his
friend's friend through good report and bad report, poverty and
riches; and you know something of that yourself, Bucklaw."
"I have not forgot your merits," said his patron; "I do remember
that, in my extremities, you had a mind to CRIMP me for the
service of the French king, or of the Pretender; and, moreover,
that you afterwards lent me a score of pieces, when, as I firmly
believe, you had heard the news that old Lady Girnington had a
touch of the dead palsy. But don't be downcast, John; I
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