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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Loud laughed the sons of Pallas, and fast went the wine-cup
round; but Theseus frowned, and said under his breath, 'No
wonder that the land is full of robbers, while such as these
bear rule.'
Then the Pallantids saw him, and called to him, half-drunk
with wine, 'Holla, tall stranger at the door, what is your
will to-day?'
'I come hither to ask for hospitality.'
'Then take it, and welcome. You look like a hero and a bold
warrior; and we like such to drink with us.'
'I ask no hospitality of you; I ask it of AEgeus the king,
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