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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: the Mist.
"Such is our paction," replied the Campbell.
"Then know, that the child whom I saved our of compassion at the
spoiling of her father's tower of strength, was bred as an
adopted daughter of our tribe, until we were worsted at the pass
of Ballenduthil, by the fiend incarnate and mortal enemy of our
tribe, Allan M'Aulay of the Bloody hand, and by the horsemen of
Lennox, under the heir of Menteith."
"Fell she into the power of Allan of the Bloody hand," said
Murdoch, "and she a reputed daughter of thy tribe? Then her
blood has gilded the dirk, and thou hast said nothing to rescue
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