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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: way to muzzle, ye."
"I think better of the Advocate than that," said I.
"The Advocate be dammed!" cries he. "It's the Campbells, man! You'll
have the whole clanjamfry of them on your back; and so will the
Advocate too, poor body! It's extraordinar ye cannot see where ye
stand! If there's no fair way to stop your gab, there's a foul one
gaping. They can put ye in the dock, do ye no see that?" he cried, and
stabbed me with one finger in the leg.
"Ay," said I, "I was told that same no further back than this morning
by another lawyer."
"And who was he?" asked Stewart, "He spoke sense at least."
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