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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: meanest no harm in coming hither; ne'theless it was ill of thee
so to do. An my father should find thee here, he would have thee
shrewdly punished for such trespassing. Dost thou not know that
no one is permitted to enter this place--no, not even my uncle
George? One fellow who came hither to steal apples once had his
ears shaven close to his head, and not more than a year ago one
of the cook's men who climbed the wall early one morning was shot
by the watchman."
"Aye," said Myles, "I knew of him who was shot, and it did go
somewhat against my stomach to venture, knowing what had happed
to him. Ne'theless, an I gat not the ball, how were we to play
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