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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: evening before to Lord Mackworth.
"Humph!" said Sir James; "thou be'st big of bone and frame for
thine age. I would that thy heart were more that of a man
likewise, and less that of a giddy, hare-brained boy, thinking
continually of naught but mischief."
Again he fell silent, and Myles sat quite still, wondering if it
was on account of any special one of his latest escapades that he
had been summoned to the office--the breaking of the window in
the Long Hall by the stone he had flung at the rook, or the
climbing of the South Tower for the jackdaw's nest.
"Thou hast a friend," said Sir James, suddenly breaking into his
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