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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: during our parley, and now, ere he could engage me, the older man
grasped his harness and drew him back.
"Hold!" commanded Lakor. "There will be plenty of time to
fight if we find it wise to fight at all. There be good reasons
why every thern upon Barsoom should yearn to spill the blood of
the blasphemer, the sacrilegist; but let us mix wisdom with our
righteous hate. The Prince of Helium is bound upon an errand which
we ourselves, but a moment since, were wishing that we might undertake.
"Let him go then and slay the black. When he returns we shall
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