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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: returning the one that Gascoyne had just given him, took it in
his hand. It was of seasoned oak, somewhat thicker than the
other, a tough weapon, not easily to be broken even in such an
encounter as he was like to have. He balanced the weapon, and
found that it fitted perfectly to his grasp. As he raised the
point to rest, his opponent took his station at the farther
extremity of the lists, and again there was a little space of
breathless pause. Myles was surprised at his own coolness; every
nervous tremor was gone. Before, he had been conscious of the
critical multitude looking down upon him; now it was a conflict
of man to man, and such a conflict had no terrors for his young
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