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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: After giving a day to sad recollections, the hardy spirit which
had carried him through so many dangers, manned the Sergeant's
bosom against this cruel disappointment. "He would go," he said,
"to Canada to his kinsfolk, where they had named a Transatlantic
valley after the glen of their fathers. Janet," he said, "should
kilt her coats like a leaguer lady; d--n the distance! it was a
flea's leap to the voyages and marches he had made on a slighter
occasion."
With this purpose he left the Highlands, and came with his sister
as far as Gandercleugh, on his way to Glasgow, to take a passage
to Canada. But winter was now set in, and as he thought it
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