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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: perusal of these documents, in which it is probable he found
something to animate his personal resentment against his rival
Argyle.
"Does he not fear me?" said he; "then he shall feel me. Will he
fire my castle of Murdoch?--Inverary shall raise the first
smoke.--O for a guide through the skirts of Strath-Fillan!"
Whatever might be Dalgetty's personal conceit, he understood his
business sufficiently to guess at Montrose's meaning. He
instantly interrupted his own prolix narration of the skirmish
which had taken place, and the wound he had received in his
retreat, and began to speak to the point which he saw interested
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