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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: Dugald Dalgetty and his guide, or he is like to have a passport
to another world."
The Marquis subscribed, and wrote, by the light of the dark
lantern, as the soldier prescribed to him.
"And now, Ranald," said Dalgetty, "strip thy upper garment--thy
plaid I mean, Ranald, and in it will I muffle the M'Callum More,
and make of him, for the time, a Child of the Mist;--Nay, I must
bring it over your head, my lord, so as to secure us against your
mistimed clamour.--So, now he is sufficiently muffled;--hold down
your hands, or, by Heaven, I will stab you to the heart with your
own dagger!--nay, you shall be bound with nothing less than silk,
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