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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: plant himself as a spy on other people's affairs, and the latter
quality leading him perpetually to interfere, after he had made
himself master of that which concerned him not. He spent the
livelong day in attempting to peer under the Countess's muffler,
and apparently what he could there discern greatly sharpened his
curiosity.
"That sister of thine, Wayland," he said, "has a fair neck to
have been born in a smithy, and a pretty taper hand to have been
used for twirling a spindle--faith, I'll believe in your
relationship when the crow's egg is hatched into a cygnet."
"Go to," said Wayland, "thou art a prating boy, and should be
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