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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: be a permanent reconciliation when, for years after the
disappearance of the little Prince Richard, De Mont-
fort devoted much of his time and private fortune to
prosecuting a search through all the world for the little
fellow, of whom he was inordinately fond. This self-
sacrificing interest on his part won over the King and
Queen for many years, but of late his unremitting hos-
tility to their continued extravagant waste of the na-
tional resources has again hardened them toward him."
The old man, growing uneasy at the turn the con-
versation threatened, sent the youth from the room on
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