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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: crowd of gentlemen, squires, and pages. One of the two was a
dignitary of the Church; the other Myles instantly singled out as
the Earl of Mackworth.
CHAPTER 4
He was a tall man, taller even than Myles's father. He had a thin
face, deep-set bushy eyebrows, and a hawk nose. His upper lip was
clean shaven, but from his chin a flowing beard of iron- gray
hung nearly to his waist. He was clad in a riding-gown of black
velvet that hung a little lower than the knee, trimmed with otter
fur and embroidered with silver goshawks--the crest of the family
of Beaumont.
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