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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: her confidence and her love.
Everyone else with whom Meriem came in contact was, almost
without exception, either indifferent to her or cruel. There was,
for example, the old black hag who looked after her, Mabunu--
toothless, filthy and ill tempered. She lost no opportunity
to cuff the little girl, or even inflict minor tortures upon her,
such as pinching, or, as she had twice done, searing the tender
flesh with hot coals. And there was The Sheik, her father.
She feared him more than she did Mabunu. He often scolded her
for nothing, quite habitually terminating his tirades by cruelly
beating her, until her little body was black and blue.
The Son of Tarzan |
