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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: one cartridge for me, please?" she begged.
Smith-Oldwick looked down at her and blinked his eyes
very rapidly. An unfamiliar and disconcerting moisture had
come into them. He had realized, of course, how bad a plight
was theirs but somehow it had seemed to affect him only:
it did not seem possible that anyone could harm this sweet
and beautiful girl.
And that she should have to be destroyed -- destroyed by
him! It was too hideous: it was unbelievable, unthinkable! If
he had been filled with apprehension before, he was doubly
perturbed now.
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