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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: oath of an ape is of no account, but that he will tear up the
Children of Wisdom as an ape tears leaves, and afterwards take
the divine Lady to be his wife.
"Look on the Lord Oro!" continued the living Yva, "his wrath
leaves him. He grows cold and smiles. His daughter throws herself
upon her knees and pleads with him. He thrusts her away. She
would spring to the side of the Prince; he commands his
councillors to hold her. She cries to the Prince that she loves
him and him only, and that in a day to come him she will wed and
no other. He thanks her, saying that as it is with her, so it is
with him, and that because of his love he fears nothing. She
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