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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: and auld Scotland for ever! When the sword is drawn, I will be
as ready to use it as any man; but while it is in the sheath, let
us behave like gentlemen and neighbours."
Soon after this colloquy they reached the castle, when Ellieslaw,
who had been arrived a few minutes before, met them in the court-
yard.
"How is Miss Vere? and have you learned the cause of her being
carried off?" asked Mareschal hastily.
"She is retired to her apartment greatly fatigued; and I cannot
expect much light upon her adventure till her spirits are
somewhat recruited," replied her father. "She and I were not the
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