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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: beneath his garment, and unsheathed it so far that the blade
glimmered clear in the fire-light--"with this," he pursued, as he
thrust the weapon back into the scabbard, "I can, if necessary,
defend the vital spark enclosed in this poor trunk, against the
fairest and strongest that shall threaten me with injury."
It was with difficulty Isabella refrained from screaming out
aloud; but she DID refrain.
"This," continued the Recluse, "is the life of nature, solitary,
self-sufficing, and independent. The wolf calls not the wolf to
aid him in forming his den; and the vulture invites not another
to assist her in striking down her prey."
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