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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: hair was falling over his eyes, and he looked like a demon fresh
from the pit, with his frantic face. Almost with the blindness of
instinct the lieutenant thrust out his pistol, firing it as he
did so. The pirate staggered back: he was down--no; he was up
again. He had a pistol in each hand; but there was a stream of
blood running down his naked ribs. Suddenly, the mouth of a
pistol was pointing straight at the lieutenant's head. He ducked
instinctively, striking upward with his cutlass as he did so.
There was a stunning, deafening report almost in his ear. He
struck again blindly with his cutlass. He saw the flash of a
sword and flung up his guard almost instinctively, meeting the
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