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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: manliness such as was stamped on Myles's handsome, sturdy face.
No doubt the King's heart warmed towards the fledgling warrior
kneeling in the pathway before him. He smiled very kindly as he
gave the lad his hand to kiss, and that ceremony done, held fast
to the hard, brown, sinewy fist of the young man with his soft
white hand, and raised him to his feet.
"By the mass!" said he, looking Myles over with smiling eyes,
"thou art a right champion in good sooth. Such as thou art haply
was Sir Galahad when he came to Arthur's court. And so they tell
me, thou hast stomach to brook the Sieur de la Montaigne, that
tough old boar of Dauphiny. Hast thou in good sooth the courage
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