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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: responsive in Montrose's own bosom, not quite consonant with the
general heroism of his character. The houses of Argyle and
Montrose had been in former times, repeatedly opposed to each
other in war and in politics, and the superior advantages
acquired by the former, had made them the subject of envy and
dislike to the neighbouring family, who, conscious of equal
desert, had not been so richly rewarded. This was not all. The
existing heads of these rival families had stood in the most
marked opposition to each other since the commencement of the
present troubles.
Montrose, conscious of the superiority of his talents, and of
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