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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: suddenly he opened his eyes and looked up into the face of a
huge lion.
Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick was not only an
English gentleman and an officer in name, he was also what
these implied -- a brave man; but when he realized that the
sweet picture he had looked upon was but the figment of a
dream, and that in reality he still lay where he had fallen at
the foot of the grating with a lion standing over him licking his
face, the tears sprang to his eyes and ran down his cheeks.
Never, he thought, had an unkind fate played so cruel a joke
upon a human being.
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