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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: strong as I. Therefore how will it profit you to kill
two and still be robbed of thy prey?"
Peter of Colfax entertained no doubt but that his
fair prisoner would carry out her threat and so he set
his men to work with cold chisels, axes and saws upon
the huge door.
For hours they labored upon that mighty work of
defence, and it was late at night ere they made a little
opening large enough to admit a hand and arm, but
the first one intruded within the room to raise the
bars was drawn quickly back with a howl of pain from
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