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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: desires--and, reverend sir" (not forgetting to fit the action to
the words), "I fill this cup to the drowning of all unkindness
betwixt you and Captain Dalgetty--I should say Major--and, in
respect the flagon contains but one cup more, I drink to the
health of all honourable cavaliers and brave soldados--and, the
flask being empty, I am ready, Sir Duncan, to attend your
functionary or sentinel to my place of private repose."
He received a formal permission to retire, and an assurance, that
as the wine seemed to be to his taste, another measure of the
same vintage should attend him presently, in order to soothe the
hours of his solitude.
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