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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his intention to wed, Dejah Thoris sprang to her feet and, raising
her hand aloft, cried in a loud voice that they desist.
"I may not be the wife of Salensus Oll," she pleaded, "for
already I be a wife and mother. John Carter, Prince of Helium,
still lives. I know it to be true, for I overheard Matai Shang
tell his daughter Phaidor that he had seen him in Kaor, at the
court of Kulan Tith, Jeddak. A jeddak does not wed a married
woman, nor will Salensus Oll thus violate the bonds of matrimony."
Salensus Oll turned upon Thurid with an ugly look.
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