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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: "Mon Dieu!" she cried, "Tell me it is but a cruel
joke."
"It be the cruel truth, My Lady Bertrade," said Nor-
man of Torn sadly. And, then, as she turned away
from him, burying her face in her raised arms, he came
to her side, and, laying his hand upon her shoulder,
said sadly:
"And now you see, My Lady, why I did not follow
you to France. My heart went there with you, but I
knew that naught but sorrow and humiliation could
come to one whom the Devil of Torn loved, if that
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