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To balance probabilities, where life and liberty hang on the result, requires steady nerves.
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The strength of our determination was about to be fully tested.
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The absolute power of this distant old master had touched my young spirit with but the point of its cold, cruel iron, and left me something to brood over after the play and in moments of repose.