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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: wounds.
He had received no serious injury as yet, for not only was his
body protected by a buckler, or small oblong shield, which he
carried upon his left arm, and his head by a bascinet, or light
helmet of steel, but perhaps, after all, Blunt was not
over-anxious to do him any dangerous harm. Nevertheless, there
could be but one opinion as to how the fight tended, and Myles's
friends were gloomy and downcast; the bachelors proportionately
exultant, shouting with laughter, and taunting Myles at every
unsuccessful stroke.
Once, as he drew back panting, leaning upon Gascoyne's shoulder,
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