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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: occasions. Their cheeks had touched and were withdrawn from each
other; Ravenswood had not quitted the hand which he had taken in
kindly courtesy; a blush, which attached more consequence by far
than was usual to such ceremony, still mantled on Lucy Ashton's
beautiful cheek, when the apartment was suddenly illuminated by a
flash of lightning, which seemed absolutely to swallow the
darkness of the hall. Every object might have been for an
instant seen distinctly. The slight and half-sinking form of
Lucy Ashton; the well-proportioned and stately figure of
Ravenswood, his dark features, and the fiery yet irresolute
expression of his eyes; the old arms and scutcheons which hung on
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