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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: from his future schemes, and all dreaded the height to which he
was elevated.
We have already noticed, that in displaying himself amidst his
councillors, his officers of the household, and his train of
vassals, allies, and dependents, the Marquis of Argyle probably
wished to make an impression on the nervous system of Captain
Dugald Dalgetty. But that doughty person had fought his way, in
one department or another, through the greater part of the Thirty
Years' War in Germany, a period when a brave and successful
soldier was a companion for princes. The King of Sweden, and,
after his example, even the haughty Princes of the Empire, had
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