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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: baleful eyes fixed in a frenzy of loathing and contempt
upon my mother. The torrent of hatred and abuse she
poured out upon her turned my young heart cold in terror.
That she had heard the entire story was apparent, and that
she had suspected something wrong from my mother's long nightly
absences from her quarters accounted for her presence there
on that fateful night.
"One thing she had not heard, nor did she know, the
whispered name of my father. This was apparent from her
repeated demands upon my mother to disclose the name of
her partner in sin, but no amount of abuse or threats could
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