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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: day bring the belfry down the cliff, could convert a starved hen
into a fat capon, and a blade-bone of mutton into a haunch of
venison."
"I wish we may be so well off as your worst conjectures surmise,
Bucklaw, from the extreme solemnity and ceremony with which Caleb
seems to place on the table that solitary covered dish."
"Uncover, Caleb! uncover, for Heaven's sake!" said Bucklaw; "let
us have what you can give us without preface. Why, it stands
well enough, man," he continued, addressing impatiently the
ancient butler, who, without reply, kept shifting the dish,
until he had at length placed it with mathematical precision in
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