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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: hardly knowing what he said, cried out, - 'A present! who are
you who talk of presents? See if I do not bring a nobler one
than all of yours together!'
So he said boasting; and yet he felt in his heart that he was
braver than all those scoffers, and more able to do some
glorious deed.
'Hear him! Hear the boaster! What is it to be?' cried they
all, laughing louder than ever.
Then his dream at Samos came into his mind, and he cried
aloud, 'The head of the Gorgon.'
He was half afraid after he had said the words for all
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