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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: unknown) was suspected of being a better man in the cabinet than
in the field. He and his tribe were particularly obnoxious to
the M'Donalds and the M'Leans, two numerous septs, who, though
disunited by ancient feuds, agreed in an intense dislike to the
Campbells, or, as they were called, the Children of Diarmid.
For some time the assembled Chiefs remained silent, until some
one should open the business of the meeting. At length one of
the most powerful of them commenced the diet by saying,--"We have
been summoned hither, M'Aulay, to consult of weighty matters
concerning the King's affairs, and those of the state; and we
crave to know by whom they are to be explained to us?"
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