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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: known it, was more than ample payment to the affection starved boy.
The sleeping problem vexed Korak. He knew that the girl
could not balance herself in safety in a tree crotch while she
slept, nor would it be safe to permit her to sleep upon the ground
open to the attacks of prowling beasts of prey. There was but a
single solution that presented itself--he must hold her in his
arms all night. And that he did, with Akut braced upon one side
of her and he upon the other, so that she was warmed by the
bodies of them both.
She did not sleep much until the night was half spent; but at
last Nature overcame her terrors of the black abyss beneath and
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