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: grace me with a seat in his own gallery." The divine bowed low
at this intimation, knowing that such an honour was only
vouchsafed to persons of very high rank. "It has been my fate,
sir," said the Captain, "in the sort of wandering life which I
have led, to have heard different preachers of different
religions--as for example, Lutheran, Evangelical, Reformed,
Calvinistical, and so forth, but never have I listened to such a
homily as yours."
"Call it a lecture, worthy sir," said the divine, "such is the
phrase of our church."
"Lecture or homily," said Dalgetty, "it was, as the High Germans
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