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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: moment. MacEagh, in the meantime, proposed to Captain Dalgetty
to disencumber himself of his armour, and gave him to understand
that the women should transport it to a place of safety.
"I crave your pardon, sir," said Dalgetty, "such is not the rule
of our foreign service in respect I remember the regiment of
Finland cuirassiers reprimanded, and their kettle-drums taken
from them, by the immortal Gustavus, because they had assumed the
permission to march without their corslets, and to leave them
with the baggage. Neither did they strike kettle-drums again at
the head of that famous regiment until they behaved themselves so
notably at the field of Leipsic; a lesson whilk is not to be
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