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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: "Out upon it!" exclaimed the Earl of Mackworth, almost shrilly in
his excitement, as the sudden lull followed the crashing of
blows. "Why doth the boy spare him? That is thrice he hath given
him grace to recover; an he had pushed the battle that time he
had driven him back against the barriers."
It was as the Earl had said; Myles had three times given his
enemy grace when victory was almost in his very grasp. He had
three times spared him, in spite of all he and those dear to him
must suffer should his cruel and merciless enemy gain the
victory. It was a false and foolish generosity, partly the fault
of his impulsive youth--more largely of his romantic training in
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