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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: unawares."
"Not I," said Dick. "My time is come, and peradventure he may pass
us by."
"Bend me, then, your bow!" cried the other. "What! will ye be a
man?"
Dick crossed himself. "Would ye have me shoot upon a leper?" he
cried. "The hand would fail me. Nay, now," he added - "nay, now,
let be! With sound men I will fight, but not with ghosts and
lepers. Which this is, I wot not. One or other, Heaven be our
protection!"
"Now," said Matcham, "if this be man's courage, what a poor thing
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