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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: officer.
Of course she might be mad, after all, and possibly the
bandit, too, but it seemed unbelievable that the officer was
mad and his entire troop of cavalry should be composed of
maniacs, yet they all persisted in speaking and acting as
though he were indeed the mad king of Lutha and the
young girl at his side a princess.
From pitying the girl he had come to feel a little bit in
awe of her. To the best of his knowledge he had never be-
fore associated with a real princess. When he recalled that
he had treated her as he would an ordinary mortal, and that
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