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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: encouragement lit his face.
"Courage, my princess," he whispered.
To the girl's memory flashed the occasion upon which
he had used those same words--in the throne-room of
Tario of Lothar as they had commenced to slip down the
sinking marble floor toward an unknown fate.
Then she had not chidden him for the use of that familiar
salutation, nor did she chide him now, though she was
promised to another. She wondered at herself--flushing
at her own turpitude; for upon Barsoom it is a shameful
thing for a woman to listen to those two words from
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
