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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: night upon a watchman against whom they bore a grudge.
The young ladies were listening with laughing faces, when
suddenly, as Myles looked, he saw the smile vanish from Lady
Alice's eyes and a wide terror take its place. She gave a
half-articulate cry, and rose abruptly from the bench upon which
she was sitting.
Myles turned sharply, and then his very heart seemed to stand
still within him; for there, standing in the broad sunlight
without, and glaring in upon the party with baleful eyes, was the
Earl of Mackworth himself.
How long was the breathless silence that followed, Myles could
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