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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: ferment of excitement as had, perhaps, never before stirred them.
About one o'clock in the afternoon the Earl himself and Lord
George came walking slowly across the Armory Court wrapped in
deep conversation, and entered Sir James Lee's office.
All the usual hubbub of noise that surrounded the neighborhood of
the dormitory and the armory was stilled at their coming, and
when the two noblemen had entered Sir James's office, the lads
and young men gathered in knots discussing with an almost awesome
interest what that visit might portend.
After some time Sir James Lee came to the door at the head of the
long flight of stone steps, and whistling, beckoned one of the
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