The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: whom he had no cause of quarrel,--against a friend of their own,
--above all, against one of the name of Elliot, to which clan
most of them belonged. It was not, therefore, wonderful, that
there should be several in the band pretty well acquainted with
the locality of his habitation, and capable of giving such
directions and guidance as soon placed the whole party on the
open space of firm ground in front of the Tower of Westburnflat.
CHAPTER IX.
So spak the knicht; the geaunt sed,
Lend forth with the, the sely maid,
And mak me quile of the and sche;
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