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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Ye muckle ass!" cried Stewart, "it's James they want; James has got to
hang - Alan, too, if they could catch him - but James whatever! Go
near the Advocate with any such business, and you'll see! he'll find a
way to muzzle, ye."
"I think better of the Advocate than that," said I.
"The Advocate be dammed!" cries he. "It's the Campbells, man! You'll
have the whole clanjamfry of them on your back; and so will the
Advocate too, poor body! It's extraordinar ye cannot see where ye
stand! If there's no fair way to stop your gab, there's a foul one
gaping. They can put ye in the dock, do ye no see that?" he cried, and
stabbed me with one finger in the leg.
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