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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: but which produces depression of spirits, nausea, headache, an
unwillingness to change of place--even such a state of temper as
would keep a bird from flying out of a cage were the door left
open?"
"I have said so, and it is true," said the alchemist. "This
effect will it produce, and the bird who partakes of it in such
proportion shall sit for a season drooping on her perch, without
thinking either of the free blue sky, or of the fair greenwood,
though the one be lighted by the rays of the rising sun, and the
other ringing with the newly-awakened song of all the feathered
inhabitants of the forest."
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