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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: At an early hour in the morning the guests of the castle sprung
from their repose; and, after a moment's private conversation
with his attendants, Lord Menteith addressed the soldier, who was
seated in a corner burnishing his corslet with rot-stone and
chamois-leather, while he hummed the old song in honour of the
victorious Gustavus Adolphus:--
When cannons are roaring, and bullets are flying,
The lad that would have honour, boys, must never fear dying.
"Captain Dalgetty," said Lord Menteith, "the time is come that we
must part, or become comrades in service."
"Not before breakfast, I hope?" said Captain Dalgetty.
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