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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: and I could feel the cold sweat start from every pore in my body.
Presently it swung full upon us and--stopped. The tension
on our nerves was near the breaking point, and I doubt if
any of us breathed for the few moments he held us covered
by his glass; and then he lowered it and we could see him
shout a command to the warriors who had passed from our
sight behind the ridge. He did not wait for them to join
him, however, instead he wheeled his thoat and came tearing
madly in our direction.
There was but one slight chance and that we must take
quickly. Raising my strange Martian rifle to my shoulder I
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