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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: effectually have sealed his lips had not the other--he
saw the Outlaw of Torn dangling by his neck from a
wooden gibbet.
Before, he had only feared that Joan de Tany loved
him, now he knew it, and while he marvelled that so
wondrous a creature could feel love for him, again he
blamed himself, and felt sorrow for them both; for
he did not return her love nor could he imagine a love
strong enough to survive the knowledge that it was
possessed by the Devil of Torn.
Presently they reached the bottom of the stairway,
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