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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: There came a kind of Highland snuffle out of the man that raised my
dander strangely.
"Well, Mr. Macgregor," said I, "I understand the main thing for a
soldier is to be silent, and the first of his virtues never to
complain."
"You have my name, I perceive" - he bowed to me with his arms crossed -
"though it's one I must not use myself. Well, there is a publicity - I
have shown my face and told my name too often in the beards of my
enemies. I must not wonder if both should be known to many that I know
not."
"That you know not in the least, sir," said I, "nor yet anybody else;
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