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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: And then, almost before Myles could answer, he asked the head
squire whether he could find a place to lodge him.
"There is Gillis Whitlock's cot empty," said Blunt. "He is in the
infirmary, and belike goeth home again when he cometh thence. The
fever hath gotten into his bones, and--"
"That will do," said the knight, interrupting him impatiently.
"Let him take that place, or any other that thou hast. And thou,
Jerome," said he to his clerk, "thou mayst enter him upon the
roll, though whether it be as page or squire or bachelor shall be
as I please, and not as Mackworth biddeth me. Now get ye gone."
"Old Bruin's wound smarteth him sore," Gascoyne observed, as the
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