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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: Castle of Wolgast, and which, therefore, he opined, was a
testimonial of the strictest and deepest mourning.
When Dalgetty mounted his steed, he found himself attended, or
perhaps guarded, by five or six Campbells, well armed, commanded
by one, who, from the target at his shoulder, and the short
cock's feather in his bonnet, as well as from the state which he
took upon himself, claimed the rank of a Dunniewassel, or
clansman of superior rank; and indeed, from his dignity of
deportment, could not stand in a more distant degree of
relationship to Sir Duncan, than that of tenth or twelfth cousin
at farthest. But it was impossible to extract positive
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