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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and chivalry and true manhood which his old guardian
had neglected to inculcate in the boy's mind the good
priest planted there, but he could not eradicate his
deep-seated hatred for the English or his belief that
the real test of manhood lay in a desire to fight to
the death with a sword.
An occurrence which befell during one of the boy's
earlier visits to his new friend rather decided the latter
that no arguments he could bring to bear could ever
overcome the bald fact that to this very belief of the
boy's, and his ability to back it up with acts, the good
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