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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: own interest that he left her.
For answer she turned her back full upon him, but
not without first throwing him such a look of contempt
that brought the scarlet to his cheek.
Then he hesitated, but Jav seized him by the wrist.
"Come!" he whispered. "Or he will have the bowmen upon you,
and this time there will be no escape. Did you not see how
futile is your steel against thin air!"
Carthoris turned unwillingly to follow. As the two left
the room he turned to his companion.
"If I may not kill thin air," he asked, "how, then,
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