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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: army of Montrose?" said Dalgetty.
"I can," answered MacEagh; "there lives not a man to whom the
mountain passes, the caverns, the glens, the thickets, and the
corries are known, as they are to the Children of the Mist.
While others crawl on the level ground, by the sides of lakes and
streams, ours are the steep hollows of the inaccessible
mountains, the birth-place of the desert springs. Not all the
bloodhounds of Argyle can trace the fastnesses through which I
can guide you."
"Say'st thou so, honest Ranald?" replied Dalgetty; "then have on
with thee; for of a surety I shall never save the ship by my own
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