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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: these terms they parted.
The poor patient--whose nerves, from an extraordinary state of
tension, had at length become relaxed in as extraordinary a
degree--continued to struggle with a sort of imbecility, the
growth of superstitious terror, when the shocking tidings were
brought from Holland which fulfilled even her worst expectations.
They were sent by the celebrated Earl of Stair, and contained the
melancholy event of a duel betwixt Sir Philip Forester and his
wife's half-brother, Captain Falconer, of the Scotch-Dutch, as
they were then called, in which the latter had been killed. The
cause of quarrel rendered the incident still more shocking. It
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