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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: from religious motives, or sharing the ambitious views of
Ellieslaw, had given countenance to his scheme; and there were,
also, some fiery young men, like Mareschal, desirous of
signalizing themselves by engaging in a dangerous enterprise, by
which they hoped to vindicate the independence of their country.
The other members of the party were persons of inferior rank and
desperate fortunes, who were now ready to rise in that part of
the country, as they did afterwards in the year 1715, under
Forster and Derwentwater, when a troop, commanded by a Border
gentleman, named Douglas, consisted almost entirely of
freebooters, among whom the notorious Luck-in-a-bag, as he was
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