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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells: of now," said I, "is how to get away from this island."
"What's the good of getting away? I'm an outcast.
Where am I to join on? It's all very well for you, Prendick.
Poor old Moreau! We can't leave him here to have his bones picked.
As it is--And besides, what will become of the decent part of the
Beast Folk?"
"Well," said I, "that will do to-morrow. I've been thinking we might make
that brushwood into a pyre and burn his body--and those other things.
Then what will happen with the Beast Folk?"
"I don't know. I suppose those that were made of beasts of prey will
make silly asses of themselves sooner or later. We can't massacre
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