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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: you can never think of Mr. Mallory without thinking of the
damned beast that murdered him--God! and I thought it
smart!
"But you have no idea how I was raised, Miss Harding,"
he went on. "Not that that's any excuse for the thing I did;
but it does make it seem a wonder that I ever could
have made a start even at being decent. I never was well
acquainted with any human being that wasn't a thief, or a
pickpocket, or a murderer--and they were all beasts, each
in his own particular way, only they weren't as decent as
dumb beasts.
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