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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: crimson.--"Now, have done with these busy fingers, Janet," she
said to her handmaiden, who was still officiously employed in
bringing her hair and her dress into order--"have done, I say. I
must see your father ere my lord arrives, and also Master Richard
Varney, whom my lord has highly in his esteem--but I could tell
that of him would lose him favour."
"Oh, do not do so, good my lady!" replied Janet; "leave him to
God, who punishes the wicked in His own time; but do not you
cross Varney's path, for so thoroughly hath he my lord's ear,
that few have thriven who have thwarted his courses."
"And from whom had you this, my most righteous Janet?" said the
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