The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of his trousers.
Tarzan, sitting at a short distance, was busy with the
remaining knots of the cords which bound him.
Presently he flung aside the last of them and rose to
his feet. Approaching Werper he knelt beside him. For
a moment he examined the ape.
"Quite dead," he announced. "It is too bad--he was a
splendid creature," and then he turned to the work of
liberating the Belgian.
He freed his hands first, and then commenced upon the
knots at his ankles.
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