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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: in the building where I hoped to find the Heliumite, and in
another moment I stood in the room before him. He was
alone and showed no surprise at my coming, saying he had
expected me much earlier, as my tour of duty must have
ended some time since.
I saw that he knew nothing of the events of the day at
the palace, and when I had enlightened him he was all
excitement. The news that Dejah Thoris had promised her
hand to Sab Than filled him with dismay.
"It cannot be," he exclaimed. "It is impossible! Why no
man in all Helium but would prefer death to the selling of
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