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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: I assure you."
Alice could not see his blushing cheek, but she noticed his
hestitation, and that he retracted the pledge which he seemed at
first disposed to attach to his denial.
"It is so, then," she said, "and therefore she is to tarry by
the Mermaiden's Well! Often has it been called a place fatal to
the race of Ravenswood--often has it proved so; but never was it
likely to verify old sayings as much as on this day."
"You drive me to madness, Alice," said Ravenswood; "you are more
silly and more superstitious than old Balderstone. Are you such
a wretched Christian as to suppose I would in the present day
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