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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: continued to increase in strength and activity, till his
fifteenth year, about which time he assumed a total independence
of character, and impatience of control, which much alarmed his
surviving parent. He was absent in the woods for whole days and
nights, under pretence of hunting, though he did not always bring
home game. His father was the more alarmed, because several of
the Children of the Mist, encouraged by the increasing troubles
of the state, had ventured back to their old haunts, nor did he
think it altogether safe to renew any attack upon them. The risk
of Allan, in his wanderings, sustaining injury from these
vindictive freebooters, was a perpetual source of apprehension.
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