The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "Most infallibly, and most inviolably," replied Sir Frederick.
"Then," said Vere, "though what you ask is premature, indelicate,
and unjust towards my character, yet, Sir Frederick, give me your
hand--my daughter shall be your wife."
"This night?"
"This very night," replied Ellieslaw, "before the clock strikes
twelve."
"With her own consent, I trust," said Mareschal; "for I promise
you both, gentlemen, I will not stand tamely by, and see any
violence put on the will of my pretty kinswoman."
"Another pest in this hot-headed fellow," muttered Ellieslaw;
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