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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: "I am for God and my standard," answered the single horseman.
"And for which standard?" replied the chief of the other party
--"Cavalier or Roundhead, King or Convention?"
"By my troth, sir," answered the soldier, "I would be loath to
reply to you with an untruth, as a thing unbecoming a cavalier of
fortune and a soldier. But to answer your query with beseeming
veracity, it is necessary I should myself have resolved to whilk
of the present divisions of the kingdom I shall ultimately
adhere, being a matter whereon my mind is not as yet preceesely
ascertained."
"I should have thought," answered the gentleman, "that, when
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