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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: But Dalgetty detained him, grasping a firm hold of his plaid.--"I
know not how this matter may end--but I request you will inform
Montrose, that I died like a follower of the immortal Gustavus
--and I pray you, take heed how you quit your present strength,
even for the purpose of pursuing the enemy, if you gain any
advantage--and--and--"
Here Dalgetty's breath and eyesight began to fail him through
loss of blood, and MacEagh, availing himself of this
circumstance, extricated from his grasp the end of his own
mantle, and substituted that of a female, by which the Captain
held stoutly, thereby securing, as he conceived, the outlaw's
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