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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: Covenanters to-morrow, providing I shall be so minded."
M'Aulay and his English guests stared at this declaration, which
would have certainly bred new disturbance, if Lord Menteith had
not taken up the affair, and explained the circumstances and
conditions. "I trust," he concluded, "we shall be able to secure
Captain Dalgetty's assistance to our own party."
"And if not," said the Laird, "I protest, as the Captain says,
that nothing that has passed this evening, not even his having
eaten my bread and salt, and pledged me in brandy, Bourdeaux, or
usquebaugh, shall prejudice my cleaving him to the neck-bone."
"You shall be heartily welcome," said the Captain, "providing my
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