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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: of the venison, which had arrived from his house. Hobbie, who
apparently took leave of him at the door of his habitation, slunk
out, however, and joined him at the top of the hill.
"Ye'll be gaun yonder, Mr. Patrick; feind o' me will mistryst you
for a' my mother says. I thought it best to slip out quietly
though, in case she should mislippen something of what we're gaun
to do--we maunna vex her at nae rate--it was amaist the last word
my father said to me on his deathbed."
"By no means, Hobbie," said Earnscliff; "she well merits all your
attention."
"Troth, for that matter, she would be as sair vexed amaist for
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