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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: the Rhymer, and the successful lawsuit against his master. As it
was, he might have adopted the language of the Duke in As You
Like It:
Thou wouldst have better pleased me with this deed,
If thou hadst told me of another father.
Ravenswood was at the lady's bridle-rein, encouraging her
timidity, and guiding her horse carefully down the rocky path
which led to the moor, when one of the servants announed from the
rear that Caleb was calling loudly after them, desiring to speak
with his master. Ravenswood felt it would look singular to
neglect this summons, although inwardly cursing Caleb for his
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