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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: champion who dared come alone among twenty thou-
sand enemies for the sake of a promise made her; but
stronger than all the rest two stood out before her
mind's eye like living things--the degradation of his
low birth, and the memory of the great love she had
cherished all these long and dreary months.
And these two fought out their battle in the girl's
breast. In those few brief moments of bewilderment
and indecision it seemed to Bertrade de Montfort that
ten years passed above her head, and when she reached
her final resolution she was no longer a young girl but
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