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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: and the Bass Rock!'
'Praise to my bones that I never married!' cried the curate.
'Well, it's a grievous thing to me to see an auld house dung
down that was here before Flodden Field. But naebody can say
it was with my wish.'
'No more they can, Haddo!' says the laird. 'A good friend
ye've been to me, first and last. I can give you that
character with a clear conscience.'
Whereupon they separated, and Montroymont rode briskly down
into the Dule Valley. But of the curate Francis was not to
be quit so easily. He went on with his little, brisk steps
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