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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: quite still, with her face turned away. "Thou--thou art not
angered at what I say?" he said.
She shook her head.
"I have longed and longed for the time," said he, to ask a boon
of thee, and now hath that time come. Lady, to-morrow I go to
meet a right good knight, and one skilled in arms and in
jousting, as thou dost know. Yea, he is famous in arms, and I be
nobody. Ne'theless, I fight for the honor of England and
Mackworth--and--and for thy sake. I-- Thou art not angered at
what I say?"
Again the Lady Alice shook her head.
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