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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: gesture that poor Lady Alice uttered a faint shriek, and Lady
Anne stopped abruptly, trembling. Then she turned and passed out
the farther door of the summerhouse, poor little Lady Alice
following, holding her tight by the skirts, and trembling and
shuddering as though with a fit of the ague.
The Earl stood looking grimly after them from under his shaggy
eyebrows, until they passed away behind the yew-trees, appeared
again upon the terrace behind, entered the open doors of the
women's house, and were gone. Myles heard their footsteps growing
fainter and fainter, but he never raised his eyes. Upon the
ground at his feet were four pebbles, and he noticed how they
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