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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that you have done to render my imprisonment bearable.
"Promptly you have brought my food each day, seeing that
it was pure and of sufficient quantity. Never by word
or deed have you attempted to take advantage of my
defenceless condition to insult or torture me. You have
been uniformly courteous and considerate--it is this more
than any other thing which prompts my feeling of gratitude
and my desire to give you some slight token of it.
"In the guard-room of my palace are many fine trappings.
Go thou there and select the harness which most pleases you
--it shall be yours. All I ask is that you wear it, that I
The Gods of Mars | 
