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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: "Truly, my honest friend," said Dalgetty, "if that is your best
recommendation to Sir Duncan's favour, I would pretermit my
pleading thereupon, in respect I have observed that even the
animal creation are incensed against those who intromit with
their offspring forcibly, much more any rational and Christian
creatures, who have had violence done upon their small family.
But I pray you in courtesy to tell me, whether you assailed the
castle from the hillock called Drumsnab, whilk I uphold to be the
true point of attack, unless it were to be protected by a
sconce."
"We ascended the cliff by ladders of withies or saplings," said
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