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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: would help to recall the past to that poor, dimmed mind,
it was her duty.
"Every time I called you 'highness' you made me give
you a--a kiss," she almost whispered.
"I hope," said Barney, "that you will be guilty of lese-
majeste often."
"We were little children then, your majesty," the girl re-
minded him.
Had he thought her of sound mind Mr. Custer might have
taken advantage of his royal prerogatives on the spot, for
the girl's lips were most tempting; but when he remembered
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