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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: street. But a stronger and more terrible characteristic of the
period appeared in the market-place, which was a space of
irregular width, half way betwixt the harbour, or pier, and the
frowning castle-gate, which terminated with its gloomy archway,
portcullis, and flankers, the upper end of the vista. Midway
this space was erected a rude gibbet, on which hung five dead
bodies, two of which from their dress seemed to have been
Lowlanders, and the other three corpses were muffled in their
Highland plaids. Two or three women sate under the gallows, who
seemed to be mourning, and singing the coronach of the deceased
in a low voice. But the spectacle was apparently of too ordinary
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