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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: given me this confounded traveling machine? I didn't ask for it, and
I won't keep it a moment longer. Give it to some one you hate more
than you do me!"
The Demon stared aghast and turned his glittering eyes wonderingly
from Rob to the traveling machine and back again, as if to be sure he
had heard and seen aright.
"And here are your food tablets," continued the boy, placing the box
upon the table. "I've only enjoyed one square meal since you gave
them to me. They're all right to preserve life, of course, and answer
the purpose for which they were made; but I don't believe nature ever
intended us to exist upon such things, or we wouldn't have the sense
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