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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: throne of Salensus Oll at the moment that I had first come so
unexpectedly upon the strange scene being enacted within the chamber.
Why had the sight of that evil countenance not warned me to
greater caution? Why had I permitted the rapid development of
new situations to efface the recollection of that menacing danger?
But, alas, vain regret would not erase the calamity that had befallen.
Once again had Dejah Thoris fallen into the clutches of that
archfiend, Thurid, the black dator of the First Born. Again was
all my arduous labor gone for naught. Now I realized the cause of
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