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: chiefly interested by the smoke which ascended from the castle
chimneys, and the expectations which this seemed to warrant of
his encountering an abundant stock of provant, as he was wont to
call supplies of this nature.
The boat soon approached the rugged pier, which abutted into the
loch from the little town of Inverary, then a rude assemblage of
huts, with a very few stone mansions interspersed, stretching
upwards from the banks of Loch Fine to the principal gate of the
castle, before which a scene presented itself that might easily
have quelled a less stout heart, and turned a more delicate
stomach, than those of Ritt-master Dugald Dalgetty, titular of
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