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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: long-legged strapping young friar, who had temporarily taken his
place, undertook to administer punishment, Myles, with a
wrestling trip, flung him sprawling backward over a bench into
the midst of a shoal of small boys amid a hubbub of riotous
confusion. He had been flogged soundly for it under the
supervision of Prior Edward himself; but so soon as his
punishment was over, he assured the prior very seriously that
should like occasion again happen he would act in the same
manner, flogging or no flogging.
It was this bold, outspoken spirit that gained him at once
friends and enemies at Devlen, and though it first showed itself
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