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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: never got a warrant! Well, it'll be the same now; the same weapons
will be used. This is a scene, gentleman, of clan animosity. The
hatred of the name which I have the honour to bear, rages in high
quarters. There is nothing here to be viewed but naked Campbell spite
and scurvy Campbell intrigue."
You may be sure this was to touch a welcome topic, and I sat for some
time in the midst of my learned counsel, almost deaved with their talk
but extremely little the wiser for its purport. The Writer was led
into some hot expressions; Colstoun must take him up and set him right;
the rest joined in on different sides, but all pretty noisy; the Duke
of Argyle was beaten like a blanket; King George came in for a few digs
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