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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: speak, was the first to address him. "I could not," he said,
"leave this mansion without bequeathing to you, my very reverend
sir, my humble thanks for the homily with which you have this
evening favoured us."
"I did not observe, sir," said the clergyman, "that you were in
the chapel."
"It pleased the honourable Marquis," said Dalgetty, modestly, "to
grace me with a seat in his own gallery." The divine bowed low
at this intimation, knowing that such an honour was only
vouchsafed to persons of very high rank. "It has been my fate,
sir," said the Captain, "in the sort of wandering life which I
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