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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: him. All the buoyancy of his inherent Americanism returned
to him.
"This is no place for a minister's son," he murmured, and
turning over struck out for the opposite shore. The river
was not wide, and Barney was soon nearing the bank along
which he could see occasional camp fires. Here, too, were
Austrians. He dropped down-stream below these, and at last
approached the shore where a wood grew close to the
water's edge. The bank here was steep, and the American
had some difficulty in finding a place where he could clamber
up the precipitous wall of rock. But finally he was success-
The Mad King |
