The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: backing of strength for resistance against the tyranny of the
bachelors, and it is for that more than for any other reason that
it has been told how they found the place and of what they did
there, feeling secure against interruption.
Myles Falworth was not of a kind that forgets or neglects a thing
upon which the mind has once been set. Perhaps his chief
objective since the talk with Sir James following his fight in
the dormitory had been successful resistance to the exactions of
the head of the body of squires. He was now (more than a month
had passed) looked upon by nearly if not all of the younger lads
as an acknowledged leader in his own class. So one day he
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