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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: down from its hilltop upon the town.
At the edge of the village Von der Tann was thunder-
struck by a challenge from a sentry posted in the road, nor
was his dismay lessened when he discovered that the man
was an Austrian.
"What is the meaning of this?" he cried angrily. "What
are Austrian soldiers doing barring the roads of Lutha to the
chancellor of Lutha?"
The sentry called an officer. The latter was extremely
suave. He regretted the incident, but his orders were most
positive--no one could be permitted to pass through the
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