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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: The Knight of Ardenvohr, with two or three hundred men, all
gentlemen of descent and distinguished gallantry,--for the
Campbells are supposed to have had more gentlemen in their ranks
than any of the Highland clans, endeavoured, with unavailing
heroism, to cover the tumultuary retreat of the common file.
Their resolution only proved fatal to themselves, as they were
charged again and again by fresh adversaries, and forced to
separate from each other, until at length their aim seemed only
to be to purchase an honourable death by resisting to the very
last.
"Good quarter, Sir Duncan," called out Major Dalgetty, when he
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