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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: of rank. But I hold it good to pardon such freedoms on a march,
in respect of the Saturnalian license indulged in such cases to
the troops of all nations. And now, resume thine office, friend
Ranald, in respect I am well-breathed; or, to be more plain, I
PRAE, SEQUAR, as we used to say at Mareschal-College."
Comprehending his meaning rather from his motions than his
language, the Son of the Mist again led the way, with an unerring
precision that looked like instinct, through a variety of ground
the most difficult and broken that could well be imagined.
Dragging along his ponderous boots, encumbered with thigh-pieces,
gauntlets, corslet, and back-piece, not to mention the buff
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