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: back room she lived, high up in the attic of an old
building, and with her was a little boy who never went
abroad alone, nor by day. And upon his left breast was
a strange mark which resembled a lily. When the bent
old woman was safely in her attic room, with bolted
door behind her, she was wont to straighten up, and
discard her dingy mantle for more comfortable and
becoming doublet and hose.
For years she worked assiduously with the little boy's
education. There were three subjects in her curriculum;
French, swordsmanship and hatred of all things Eng-
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