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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: wrest a statement from me. That it must come some time he
well knew, but until it came he seemed satisfied to but
know that I was with him once more. He greeted Carthoris
and Tars Tarkas with the keenest delight, but he asked
neither where he had been. He could scarcely keep his
hands off the boy.
"You do not know, John Carter," he said to me, "how we of
Helium love this son of yours. It is as though all the
great love we bore his noble father and his poor mother
had been centred in him. When it became known that he
was lost, ten million people wept."
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