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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: this fellow vends what is wholesome?"
"I will myself warrant my good faith," said Wayland; and taking a
part of the medicine, he swallowed it before them. The Countess
now bought what remained, a step to which Janet, by further
objections, only determined her the more obstinately. She even
took the first dose upon the instant, and professed to feel her
heart lightened and her spirits augmented--a consequence which,
in all probability, existed only in her own imagination. The
lady then piled the purchases she had made together, flung her
purse to Janet, and desired her to compute the amount, and to pay
the pedlar; while she herself, as if tired of the amusement she
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