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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: "VOTO A DIOS! as the Spaniard says," exclaimed the Major, "and
some beggarly gilly may get it while I stand prating here!"
The prospect of booty having at once driven out of his head both
Gustavus and the provant, he set spurs to Loyalty's Reward, and
rode off through the field of battle.
"There goes the hound," said Menteith, "breaking the face, and
trampling on the body, of many a better man than himself; and as
eager on his sordid spoil as a vulture that stoops upon carrion.
Yet this man the world calls a soldier--and you, my lord, select
him as worthy of the honours of chivalry, if such they can at
this day be termed. You have made the collar of knighthood the
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