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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his front paws. The ape-man could not rise, therefore, without
pushing the lion away and whether Numa would tolerate
being pushed was an open question. Too, the beast might con-
sider him already dead and any movement that indicated the
contrary was true would, in all likelihood, arouse the killing
instinct of the man-eater.
But Tarzan was tiring of the situation. He was in no mood
to lie there forever, especially when he contemplated the fact
that the girl spy who had tried to brain him was undoubtedly
escaping as rapidly as possible.
Numa was looking right into his eyes now evidently aware
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