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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: that fertile and pleasant spot, that I would e'en take on with
you for the campaign."
"I can resolve Captain Dalgetty's question," said Sibbald, Lord
Menteith's second attendant; "for if his estate of Drumthwacket
be, as I conceive, the long waste moor so called, that lies five
miles south of Aberdeen, I can tell him it was lately purchased
by Elias Strachan, as rank a rebel as ever swore the Covenant"
"The crop-eared hound!" said Captain Dalgetty, in a rage; "What
the devil gave him the assurance to purchase the inheritance of a
family of four hundred years standing?--CYNTHIUS AUREM VELLET,
as we used to say at Mareschal-College; that is to say, I will
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