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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: bridle, resolved not to incur the indignation of either by a
hasty intrusion on their conference. They were probably aware of
his approach, for he had not halted for a moment before the Dwarf
returned to his cottage; and the taller figure who had
accompanied him, glided round the enclosure of the garden, and
seemed to disappear from the eyes of the admiring Hobbie.
"Saw ever mortal the like o' that!" said Elliot; "but my case is
desperate, sae, if he were Beelzebub himsell, I'se venture down
the brae on him."
Yet, notwithstanding his assumed courage, he slackened his pace,
when, nearly upon the very spot where he had last seen the tall
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