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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: himself, and your future were assured did you attach
your self to his person. But what am I saying! Did Roger
de Conde not wish to be elsewhere he had accepted,
and as he did not accept it is proof positive that he
does not wish to bide among the De Montforts."
"I would give my soul to the devil," said Norman
of Torn, "would it buy me the right to remain ever
at the feet of Bertrade Montfort."
He raised her hand to his lips in farewell as he
started to speak, but something--was it an almost im-
perceptible pressure of her little fingers, a quickening
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