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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: surprised, and even scandalized, that Ellieslaw, not remarkable
for attention to his lady while alive, should erect after her
death such a costly mausoleum in affected sorrow; others cleared
him from the imputation of hypocrisy, and averred that the
monument had been constructed under the direction and at the sole
expense of Mr. Ratcliffe.
Before these monuments the wedding guests were assembled. They
were few in number; for many had left the castle to prepare for
the ensuing political explosion, and Ellieslaw was, in the
circumstances of the case, far from being desirous to extend
invitations farther than to those near relations whose presence
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