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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: King also, but the Covenant first; and it began to be ill
days for Montroymont when the Bishops came in and the
dragoons at the heels of them. Ninian (then laird) was an
anxious husband of himself and the property, as the times
required, and it may be said of him, that he lost both. He
was heavily suspected of the Pentland Hills rebellion. When
it came the length of Bothwell Brig, he stood his trial
before the Secret Council, and was convicted of talking with
some insurgents by the wayside, the subject of the
conversation not very clearly appearing, and of the reset and
maintenance of one Gale, a gardener man, who was seen before
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