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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: belief in the divinity of Issus. She is only a wicked old woman,
wielding a mighty power for evil through machinations that
have kept her own people and all Barsoom in religious
ignorance for ages."
"She is still all-powerful here, however," I replied.
"So it behooves us to leave at the first moment that
appears at all propitious."
"I hope that you may find a propitious moment," he said,
with a laugh, "for it is certain that in all my life I have never
seen one in which a prisoner of the First Born might escape."
"To-night will do as well as any," I replied.
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