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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: slumber. To retreat now would be impossible. Yet to
cross through that roomful of sleeping warriors seemed
almost equally beyond the pale of possibility.
Carthoris shrugged his broad shoulders and chose the
lesser evil. Warily he entered the room. At his right,
against the wall, leaned several swords and rifles and
spears--extra weapons which the warriors had stacked
here ready to their hands should there be a night alarm
calling them suddenly from slumber. Beside each sleeper
lay his weapon--these were never far from their owners
from childhood to death.
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