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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: forward the moment his father had ended, and kneeled beside him.
The King offered no interruption to his speech, but he bent a
look heavy with anger upon the young man.
"My gracious Lord and King," said Myles, "I, the son of the
accused, do offer myself as his champion in this cause,
beseeching thee of thy grace leave to prove the truth of the
same, being a belted knight by thy grace and of thy creation and
the peer of any who weareth spurs." Thereupon, rising, he drew
his iron gauntlet from his girdle, and flung it clashing down
upon the floor, and with his heart swelling within him with anger
and indignation and pity of his blind father, he cried, in a loud
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