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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Slowly, but as sure as death, he was winning ever nearer
and nearer to victory. The old man saw it too. He had
devoted years of his life to training that mighty sword
arm that it might deal out death to others, and now;
ah! the grim justice of the retribution, he at last was
to fall before its diabolical cunning.
He could not win in fair fight against Norman of
Torn; that the wily Frenchman saw; but now that
death was so close upon him that he felt its cold breath
condensing on his brow, he had no stomach to die, and
so he cast about for any means whereby he might es-
The Outlaw of Torn |
