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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: sentiments so inconsistent with those you profess for me--with
those your importunity has prevailed on me to acknowledge?"
"Because," said her lover, "I would impress on you the price at
which I have bought your love--the right I have to expect your
constancy. I say not that I have bartered for it the honour of
my house, its last remaining possession; but though I say it not,
and think it not, I cannot conceal from myself that the world may
do both."
"If such are your sentiments," said Lucy, "you have played a
cruel game with me. But it is not too late to give it over: take
back the faith and troth which you could not plight to me without
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