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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: attention to him, Captain Dalgetty contrived to follow his guide
a considerable space farther, when the deep-mouthed baying of a
hound was heard coming down the wind, as if opening on the scent
of its prey.
"Black hound," said Ranald, "whose throat never boded good to a
Child of the Mist, ill fortune to her who littered thee! hast
thou already found our trace? But thou art too late, swart hound
of darkness, and the deer has gained the herd."
So saying, he whistled very softly, and was answered in a tone
equally low from the top of a pass, up which they had for some
time been ascending. Mending their pace, they reached the top,
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