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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: witnessing her last moments.
When would they come? Would Astok do the deed with
his own hands? She doubted that he had the courage
for it. At heart he was a coward--she had known it since
first she had heard him brag as, a visitor at the court of
her father, he had sought to impress her with his valour.
She could not help but compare him with another.
And with whom would an affianced bride compare an
unsuccessful suitor? With her betrothed? And did Thuvia
of Ptarth now measure Astok of Dusar by the standards
of Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol?
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
