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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: tower guarded by profane soldiery than the board of an honourable
person, and the presence of a lady of quality."
"Craving your pardon, Dominie, or Doctor, AUT QUOCUNQUE ALIO
NOMINE GAUDES, for I would have you to know I have studied polite
letters," said the unabashed envoy, filling a great cup of wine,
"I see no ground for your reproof, seeing I did not speak of
those TURPES PERSONAE, as if their occupation or character was a
proper subject of conversation for this lady's presence, but
simply PAR ACCIDENS, as illustrating the matter in hand, namely,
their natural courage and audacity, much enhanced, doubtless, by
the desperate circumstances of their condition."
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