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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: or window, full in view of the assailants. The boldest robber
that ever rode would hardly bide a second glance of him. Well, I
wish I had the use of that Gorgon head of his for only one half
hour."
"For what purpose, Lucy?" said Miss Vere.
"O! I would frighten out of the castle that dark, stiff, and
stately Sir Frederick Langley, that is so great a favourite with
your father, and so little a favourite of yours. I protest I
shall be obliged to the Wizard as long as I live, if it were only
for the half hour's relief from that man's company which we have
gained by deviating from the party to visit Elshie."
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