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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: "I mean," he said, "Mistress Annot Lyle, that having been the
means of an honourable knight receiving a severe wound in this
day's conflict,--he having pistolled, somewhat against the law of
arms, my horse, which was named after the immortal King of
Sweden,--I am desirous of procuring him such solacement as you,
madam, can supply, you being like the heathen god Esculapius"
(meaning possibly Apollo), "skilful not only in song and in
music, but in the more noble art of chirurgery-OPIFERQUE PER
ORBEM DICOR."
"If you would have the goodness to explain," said Annot, too sick
at heart to be amused by Sir Dugald's airs of pedantic gallantry.
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