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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: fed by women who had not accompanied the expedition, and the next
day we were parceled out among the retinues of the chieftains.
"I never saw my mother after that night. She was imprisoned
by Tal Hajus, and every effort, including the most horrible
and shameful torture, was brought to bear upon her to wring
from her lips the name of my father; but she remained
steadfast and loyal, dying at last amidst the laughter of
Tal Hajus and his chieftains during some awful torture
she was undergoing.
"I learned afterwards that she told them that she had
killed me to save me from a like fate at their hands, and
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