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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: crabbed Latin of the old manuscript volumes.
Upon his part Gascoyne was full of the lore of the waiting-room
and the antechamber, and Myles, who in all his life had never
known a lady, young or old, excepting his mother, was never tired
of lying silently listening to Gascoyne's chatter of the gay
doings of the castle gentle-life, in which he had taken part so
often in the merry days of his pagehood.
"I do wonder," said Myles, quaintly, "that thou couldst ever find
the courage to bespeak a young maid, Francis. Never did I do so,
nor ever could. Rather would I face three strong men than one
young damsel."
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