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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: for the common rabbit in gentlemen's parks.
We also saw on our way the trunk of a tree barked in long strips
and splintered deeply. Montgomery called my attention to this.
"Not to claw bark of trees, that is the Law," he said.
"Much some of them care for it!" It was after this, I think, that we
met the Satyr and the Ape-man. The Satyr was a gleam of classical memory
on the part of Moreau,--his face ovine in expression, like the coarser
Hebrew type; his voice a harsh bleat, his nether extremities Satanic.
He was gnawing the husk of a pod-like fruit as he passed us.
Both of them saluted Montgomery.
"Hail," said they, "to the Other with the Whip!"
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