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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: and especially here in Bundelcund. The whole district north of the Vindhias
is the theatre of incessant murders and pillage."
"The poor wretch!" exclaimed Passepartout, "to be burned alive!"
"Yes," returned Sir Francis, "burned alive. And, if she were not,
you cannot conceive what treatment she would be obliged to submit
to from her relatives. They would shave off her hair, feed her
on a scanty allowance of rice, treat her with contempt;
she would be looked upon as an unclean creature, and would die
in some corner, like a scurvy dog. The prospect of so frightful
an existence drives these poor creatures to the sacrifice
much more than love or religious fanaticism. Sometimes, however,
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