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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: there?" asked the girl in a very small voice and with wide
incredulous eyes. "You would not dare thus to humiliate a
Von der Tann?"
"I am very sorry," said the officer, "but I am a soldier,
and soldiers must obey their superiors. My orders are strict.
You may be thankful," he added, "that it was not Maenck
who discovered you."
At the mention of the name the girl shuddered.
"In so far as it is in my power your highness and his
majesty will be accorded every consideration of dignity and
courtesy while under my escort. You need not entertain
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