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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: his ruin as he had sworn to compass the ruin of his friend. He
told Myles how, now that Lord Brookhurst was grown to be Earl of
Alban, and great and powerful, he was forever plotting against
him, and showed Myles how, if Lord Falworth were discovered and
arrested for treason, he also would be likely to suffer for
aiding and abetting him. Then it dawned upon Myles that the Earl
looked to him to champion the house of Beaumont as well as that
of Falworth.
"Mayhap," said the Earl, "thou didst think that it was all for
the pleasant sport of the matter that I have taken upon me this
toil and endeavor to have thee knighted with honor that thou
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