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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: judge from his answer, if the danger in which we stand is not
real, and whether I have not used every means to avert it."
He sate down, wrote a few lines hastily, and handed them to
Isabella, who, after repeated and painful efforts, cleared her
eyes and head sufficiently to discern their purport.
"Dear cousin," said the billet, "I find my daughter, as I
expected, in despair at the untimely and premature urgency of Sir
Frederick Langley. She cannot even comprehend the peril in which
we stand, or how much we are in his power-- Use your influence
with him, for Heaven's sake, to modify proposals, to the
acceptance of which I cannot, and will not, urge my child against
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