The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: road. His nurse and messenger were coming. He decided
at once to move Mary to his own house. She must regain
consciousness in new surroundings or her chance of
survival would be slender. To awake in this miserable
cabin, the scene of the tragedy she had witnessed,
might be instantly fatal. Besides she must not yet
know that the brute who had choked her was alive and
might still hold the power of life and death over
her frail body. She believed him dead. It was best
so. He might be dead and buried before she recovered
consciousness. The fever that burned her brain would
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