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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: tone of authority to him. "Do you suppose I would drag my
daughter to the foot of the altar, were it not her own choice?"
"Tut, Ellieslaw," retorted the young gentleman, "never tell me of
the contrary; her eyes are full of tears, and her cheeks are
whiter than her white dress. I must insist, in the name of
common humanity, that the ceremony be adjourned till to-morrow."
"She shall tell you herself, thou incorrigible intermeddler in
what concerns thee not, that it is her wish the ceremony should
go on--Is it not, Isabella, my dear?"
"It is," said Isabella, half fainting--"since there is no help,
either in God or man."
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