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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: ambition, for the quiet peace you have robbed me of!--But be it
so I came not to upbraid, but to serve and to free you. You
cannot disguise it from me--you are a prisoner. Otherwise your
kind heart--for it was once a kind heart--would have been already
at your father's bedside.--Come, poor, deceived, unhappy maiden!
--all shall be forgot--all shall be forgiven. Fear not my
importunity for what regarded our contract--it was a dream, and I
have awaked. But come--your father yet lives--come, and one word
of affection, one tear of penitence, will efface the memory of
all that has passed."
"Have I not already said, Tressilian," replied she, "that I will
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