Today's Stichomancy for Arnold Schwarzenegger

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith:

In words which he trusted might yet turn aside The quarrel from which he felt bound to abstain, And, with stately urbanity, strove to explain To the Duke that he too (a fair rival at worst!) Had not been accepted.

XVI.

"Accepted! say first Are you free to have offer'd?" Lord Alfred was mute.

XVII.

"Ah, you dare not reply!" cried the Duke. "Why dispute,