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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: warned me against an attempt to escape in broad daylight
from under the muzzles of twenty of these death-dealing
machines.
The Martians, after conversing for a short time, turned and
rode away in the direction from which they had come, leaving
one of their number alone by the enclosure. When they had
covered perhaps two hundred yards they halted, and turning
their mounts toward us sat watching the warrior by the
enclosure.
He was the one whose spear had so nearly transfixed me,
and was evidently the leader of the band, as I had noted that
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