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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: opened, and the Earl of Alban entered, clad cap-a-pie in a full
suit of magnificent Milan armor without juppon or adornment of
any kind. As he approached across the lists, Myles closed the
umbril of his helmet, and then sat quite still and motionless,
for the time was come.
So he sat, erect and motionless as a statue of iron, half hearing
the reading of the long intricately- worded bills, absorbed in
many thoughts of past and present things. At last the reading
ended, and then he calmly and composedly obeyed, under the
direction of his attorney, the several forms and ceremonies that
followed; answered the various official questions, took the
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