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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: glory, but seldom to reap the fruits of victory. He had scarcely
time to repose his small army in Aberdeen, ere he found, on the
one hand, that the Gordons were likely to be deterred from
joining him, by the reasons we have mentioned, with some others
peculiar to their chief, the Marquis of Huntly; on the other
hand, Argyle, whose forces had been augmented by those of several
Lowland noblemen, advanced towards Montrose at the head of an
army much larger than he had yet had to cope with. These troops
moved, indeed, with slowness, corresponding to the cautious
character of their commander; but even that caution rendered
Argyle's approach formidable, since his very advance implied,
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