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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: fetch water to-morrow.
Then he was gone. Myles stood staring after his retreating figure
with eyes open and mouth agape, still holding the ball of
sheepskin balanced in his hand. Gascoyne burst into a helpless
laugh at his blank, stupefied face, but the next moment he laid
his hand on his friend's shoulder.
"Myles," he said, "thou wilt not make trouble, wilt thou?"
Myles made no answer. He flung down his sheepskin and sat him
gloomily down upon the side of the cot.
"I said that I would sooner die than fetch water for them," said
he.
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