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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: may yet endeavour to direct our own destinies. Of what
avail, to sink spineless to the floor? Come, be a man!"
Jav but shook his head.
"Did you not hear him call the guards?" he moaned.
"Ah, if we could have but intercepted him! Then there
might have been hope; but, alas, he was too quick for us."
"Well, well," exclaimed Carthoris impatiently. "What
if he did call the guards? There will be time enough to
worry about that after they come--at present I see no
indication that they have any idea of over-exerting
themselves to obey their jeddak's summons."
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