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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: There, at least, we shall find beings moulded after
our own images.
"All that causes me to hesitate," he added, "is the
danger of taking you past so many banths. A single
sword would scarce prevail were even a couple of
them to charge simultaneously."
"Do not fear on that score," replied the girl, smiling.
"The banths will not harm us."
As she spoke she descended from the platform, and
with Carthoris at her side stepped fearlessly out upon the
bloody field in the direction of the walled city of mystery.
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