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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: lain buried within ten miles of them, he must have risen from the
dead to run out of hearing.
The Chieftains meanwhile had assembled in close conclave in the
great hall of the castle. Among them were the persons of the
greatest consequence in the Highlands, some of them attracted by
zeal for the royal cause, and many by aversion to that severe and
general domination which the Marquis of Argyle, since his rising
to such influence in the state, had exercised over his Highland
neighbours. That statesman, indeed, though possessed of
considerable abilities, and great power, had failings, which
rendered him unpopular among the Highland chiefs. The devotion
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