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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: was my first intention, as I had thought it cruel to leave him
alone there to die of hunger and thirst. Relieving him of his
trappings, which I flung down beside him, we left the poor
fellow to his fate, and pushed on with the one thoat as best
we could. Sola and I walked, making Dejah Thoris ride, much
against her will. In this way we had progressed to within
about a mile of the hills we were endeavoring to reach when
Dejah Thoris, from her point of vantage upon the thoat,
cried out that she saw a great party of mounted men filing
down from a pass in the hills several miles away. Sola and I
both looked in the direction she indicated, and there, plainly
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