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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: precious stones, and about it was wound a strand of
her own silken tresses.
She looked long at the little trinkets and then, press-
ing them against her lips, she threw herself face down
upon an oaken bench, her lithe young form racked with
sobs.
She was indeed but a little girl chained by the inex-
orable bonds of caste to a false ideal. Birth and station
spelled honor to her, and honor, to the daughter of an
English noble, was a mightier force even than love.
That Norman of Torn was an outlaw she might have
The Outlaw of Torn | 
