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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: friend Hobbie, honest Hobbie of the Heugh-foot, your skill
relieved him last winter in a fever that might have cost him his
life."
"Thus think the children of clay in their ignorance," said: the
Dwarf, smiling maliciously, "and thus they speak in their folly.
Have you marked the young cub of a wild cat that has been
domesticated, how sportive, how playful, how gentle,--but trust
him with your game, your lambs, your poultry, his inbred ferocity
breaks forth; he gripes, tears, ravages, and devours."
"Such is the animal's instinct," answered Earnscliff; "but what
has that to do with Hobbie?"
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