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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: thou to say?" said he, harshly.
Then Myles raised his eyes, and the Earl smiled grimly as he
looked his victim over. "I have naught to say," said the lad,
huskily.
"Didst thou not hear what my daughter spake but now?" said the
Earl. "She said that thou came not of thy own free-will; what
sayst thou to that, sirrah--is it true?"
Myles hesitated for a moment or two; his throat was tight and
dry. "Nay," said he at last, "she belieth herself. It was I who
first came into the garden. I fell by chance from the tree
yonder--I was seeking a ball--then I asked those two if I might
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