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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: Lyle and her harp." And he left the apartment to give orders
accordingly.
Meanwhile a warm discussion took place, who should undertake the
perilous task of returning with Sir Duncan to Inverary. To the
higher dignitaries, accustomed to consider themselves upon an
equality even with M'Callum More, this was an office not to be
proposed; unto others who could not plead the same excuse, it was
altogether unacceptable. One would have thought Inverary had
been the Valley of the Shadow of Death, the inferior chiefs
showed such reluctance to approach it. After a considerable
hesitation, the plain reason was at length spoken out, namely,
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