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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: why they show not to Tario the respect that is his due."
Jav arose and faced the strangers. At sight of their
erect positions his face went livid. He leaped toward them.
"Creatures!" he screamed. "Down! Down upon your
bellies before the last of the jeddaks of Barsoom!"
CHAPTER VII
THE PHANTOM BOWMEN
As Jav leaped toward him Carthoris laid his hand upon
the hilt of his long-sword. The Lotharian halted. The
great apartment was empty save for the four at the dais,
yet as Jav stepped back from the menace of the Heliumite's
Thuvia, Maid of Mars | 
