The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: accepted as a chaplain of the 201st Division."
"Why, that's mine!" said Bickley.
"Is it? I am very glad, since now we shall be able to pursue
our pleasant arguments and to do our best to open each other's
minds."
"You fellows are more fortunate than I am," I remarked. "I also
volunteered, but they wouldn't take me, even as a Tommy, although
I misstated my age. They told me, or at least a specialist whom I
saw did afterwards, that the blow I got on the head from that
sorcerer's boy--"
"I know, I know!" broke in Bickley almost roughly. "Of course,
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