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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: throbbing, lay stretched upon his cot, and with a very serious
face bade him to go presently to Sir James, who had just come
from dinner, and was then in his office.
By this time Myles knew that he had not slain his enemy, and his
heart was light in spite of the coming interview. There was no
one in the office but Sir James and himself, and Myles, without
concealing anything, told, point by point, the whole trouble. Sir
James sat looking steadily at him for a while after he had ended.
"Never," said he, presently, "did I know any one of ye squires,
in all the time that I have been here, get himself into so many
broils as thou, Myles Falworth. Belike thou sought to take this
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