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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: conscious control was appealing to him for protection.
He threw an arm about her, and thus they crossed the field.
She did not draw away from him. It is doubtful that
she realized that his arm was there, so engrossed
was she in the mystery of the strange city before them.
They stopped before the gate. It was a mighty thing.
From its construction Carthoris could but dimly
speculate upon its unthinkable antiquity.
It was circular, closing a circular aperture, and the
Heliumite knew from his study of ancient Barsoomian
architecture that it rolled to one side, like a huge wheel,
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