| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: along with them their prisoner. They thought it necessary,
however, to stay for a little space at the village of Dalmally,
from which they despatched a party of the inhabitants to bring
away the body of their unfortunate leader, while they themselves
repaired to a magistrate, to state what had happened, and require
his instructions as to the farther course to be pursued. The
crime being of a military character, they were instructed to
march the prisoner to Dunbarton without delay.
The swoon of the mother of Hamish lasted for a length of time--
the longer perhaps that her constitution, strong as it was, must
have been much exhausted by her previous agitation of three days'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: gown, which I mistook for a foot-cloth, it being half the room
distant from her person."
"It is not to bring Annot Lyle hither," answered MacEagh, "but to
transport me into the room where she is in attendance upon the
Knight of Ardenvohr. Somewhat I have to say of the last
consequence to them both."
"It is something out of the order of due precedence," said
Dalgetty, "to carry a wounded outlaw into the presence of a
knight; knighthood having been of yore, and being, in some
respects, still, the highest military grade, independent always
of commissioned officers, who rank according to their patents;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war:
and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities
shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in
the land of the living.
EZE 32:28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,
and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
EZE 32:29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with
their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall
lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
EZE 32:30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they
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