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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: insolence and folly for bringing a traitorous message to the Lord
Justice General of Scotland, whose duty calls upon him to punish
such an offence with death."
"Gentlemen," said the Captain, who began much to dislike the turn
which his mission seemed about to take, "I pray you to remember,
that the Earl of Montrose will hold you and your possessions
liable for whatever injury my person, or my horse, shall sustain
by these unseemly proceedings, and that he will be justified in
executing retributive vengeance on your persons and possessions."
This menace was received with a scornful laugh, while one of the
Campbells replied, "It is a far cry to Lochow;" proverbial
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