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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: Allan M'Aulay had rushed past him, and descended the castle
stairs like lightning. "Guards, shut the gate!" exclaimed
Montrose--"Seize him--kill him, if he resists!--He shall die, if
he were my brother!"
But Allan prostrated, with a second blow of his dagger, a
sentinel who was upon duty---traversed the camp like a mountain-
deer, though pursued by all who caught the alarm--threw himself
into the river, and, swimming to the opposite side, was soon lost
among the woods. In the course of the same evening, his brother
Angus and his followers left Montrose's camp, and, taking the
road homeward, never again rejoined him.
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