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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the noble drew a small mirror from his pocket-pouch and held it
before my face.
One glance at the reflection it gave back to me was sufficient.
From my forehead the hand of the sneaking thern had reached out
through the concealing darkness of my bed-chamber and wiped away
a patch of the disguising red pigment as broad as my palm.
Beneath showed the tanned texture of my own white skin.
For a moment Thurid ceased speaking, to enhance, I suspect,
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