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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: slight for my exculpation, I will be happy--most happy--to repel
the charge, as becomes a man who counts his honour dearer than
his life."
"And I'll be his second," said Simon of Hackburn, "and take up
ony twa o' ye, gentle or semple, laird or loon; it's a' ane to
Simon."
"Who is that rough-looking fellow?" said Sir Frederick Langley,
"and what has he to do with the quarrels of gentlemen?"
"I'se be a lad frae the Hie Te'iot," said Simon, "and I'se
quarrel wi' ony body I like, except the king, or the laird I live
under."
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