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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: disgrace of a friend that cannot strike."
"Ay, the next time!" says he. "And when will that be, I would like to
ken?"
"Well, Alan, I have had some thoughts of that, too," said I; "and my
plan is this. It's my opinion to be called an advocate."
"That's but a weary trade, Davie," says Alan, "and rather a blagyard
one forby. Ye would be better in a king's coat than that."
"And no doubt that would be the way to have us meet," cried I. "But as
you'll be in King Lewie's coat, and I'll be in King Geordie's, we'll
have a dainty meeting of it."
"There's some sense in that," he admitted
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