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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: "On horseback?" said the bandit; "ay, ay, Elshie, your leech-
craft has set me on the bonny bay again."
"And all those promises of amendment which you made during your
illness forgotten?" continued Elshender.
"All clear away, with the water-saps and panada," returned the
unabashed convalescent. "Ye ken, Elshie, for they say ye are
weel acquent wi' the gentleman,
"When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be,
When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he."
"Thou say'st true," said the Solitary; "as well divide a wolf
from his appetite for carnage, or a raven from her scent of
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