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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: Due to the toils of many a bloody day. ILLIAD.
It was necessary, for many reasons, that Angus M'Aulay, so long
the kind protector of Annot Lyle, should be made acquainted with
the change in the fortunes of his late protege; and Montrose, as
he had undertaken, communicated to him these remarkable events.
With the careless and cheerful indifference of his character, he
expressed much more joy than wonder at Annot's good fortune; had
no doubt whatever she would merit it, and as she had always been
bred in loyal principles, would convey the whole estate of her
grim fanatical father to some honest fellow who loved the king.
"I should have no objection that my brother Allan should try his
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