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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: owner and sole skipper of a brig that made four voyages annually
between Cockpool and Whitehaven.
"Remember your liberties," rejoined Mareschal, who seemed to take
a mischievous delight in precipitating the movements of the
enthusiasm which he had excited, like a roguish boy, who, having
lifted the sluice of a mill-dam, enjoys the clatter of the wheels
which he has put in motion, without thinking of the mischief he
may have occasioned. "Remember your liberties," he exclaimed;
"confound cess, press, and presbytery, and the memory of old
Willie that first brought them upon us!"
"Damn the gauger!" echoed old John Rewcastle; "I'll cleave him
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