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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: what the King would urge when he learned that the
man who had sent his soldiers naked back to London,
who had forced his messenger to eat the King's message,
and who had turned his victory to defeat at Lewes,
was within reach of the army of De Montfort.
Norman of Torn loved to fight, but he was no fool,
and so he did not relish pitting his thousand upon an
open plain against twenty thousand within a walled
fortress.
No, he would see Bertrade de Montfort that night
and before dawn his rough band would be far on the
The Outlaw of Torn |
