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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: 'Will you work so hard for your masters the Teules?' cried a man in
bitter mockery, as a file of them toiled past beneath their loads
of stone.
'Fool!' answered their leader, a young and lovely lady of rank; 'do
the dead labour?'
'Nay,' said this ill jester, 'but such as you are too fair for the
Teules to kill, and your years of slavery will be many. Say, how
shall you escape them?'
'Fool!' answered the lady again, 'does fire die from lack of fuel
only, and must every man live till age takes him? We shall escape
them thus,' and casting down the torch she carried, she trod it
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