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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: The entire cavalcade then turned and galloped away toward
the range of hills in the distance.
CHAPTER IV
A PRISONER
We had gone perhaps ten miles when the ground began to
rise very rapidly. We were, as I was later to learn, nearing the
edge of one of Mars' long-dead seas, in the bottom of which
my encounter with the Martians had taken place.
In a short time we gained the foot of the mountains, and
after traversing a narrow gorge came to an open valley, at the
far extremity of which was a low table land upon which I
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