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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: cruel, depressing stronghold of intrigue, treason, and sud-
den death.
He threw back his shoulders and filled his lungs with the
sweet, pure air of freedom. He was a new man. The wound
in his breast was forgotten. Lightly he touched his spurs to
the hunter's sides. Tossing his head and curveting, the ani-
mal broke into a long, easy trot. Where the road dipped into
the ravine and down through the village to the valley the
rider drew his restless mount into a walk; but, once in the
valley, he let him out. Barney took the short road to Lus-
tadt. It would cut ten miles off the distance that the main
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