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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: standing about doing nothing and speaking very little. There was
a curious air of expectancy upon their faces. They knew that the
crisis was at hand, that their nation's fate hung upon the
scales, and they watched my every look and movement as though in
them they expected to read an omen. I too watched them out of
the corners of my eyes, wondering whether I should escape from
their savage company alive. If once the blood lust broke out
among them, it seemed to me that I should have about as much
chance as a chopped fox among a pack of hungry hounds.
Once out of the town we saw no one until we came to the circle of
guards which I have already mentioned, who stood there like an
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