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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: "It strikes the hour of your death," answered Ranald, "unless you
can accompany me a little farther. For every toll of that bell a
brave man has yielded up his soul."
"Truly, Ranald, my trusty friend," said Dalgetty, "I will not
deny that the case may be soon my own; for I am so forfoughen
(being, as I explained to you, IMPEDITUS, for had I been
EXPEDITUS, I mind not pedestrian exercise the flourish of a
fife), that I think I had better ensconce myself in one of these
bushes, and even lie quiet there to abide what fortune God shall
send me. I entreat you, mine honest friend Ranald, to shift for
yourself, and leave me to my fortune, as the Lion of the North,
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