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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: and, when he had settled that problem, proceeded to the more
abstruse calculations necessary for drawing up a brigade of two
thousand men on the principle of extracting the square root.
From his musings, he was roused by the joyful sound of the dinner
bell, on which the Highlander, lately his guard, became his
gentleman-usher, and marshalled him to the hall, where a table
with four covers bore ample proofs of Highland hospitality. Sir
Duncan entered, conducting his lady, a tall, faded, melancholy
female, dressed in deep mourning. They were followed by a
Presbyterian clergyman, in his Geneva cloak, and wearing a black
silk skull-cap, covering his short hair so closely, that it could
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