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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: I associated with them, and a traitor in his eyes would be one to be
killed. I do not like to talk religion, and anyone who has read what I
have written in various works will admit that I have done so rarely, if
ever. Yet at that moment I put up a prayer for guidance, feeling that
my young life hung upon the answer, and it came to me--whence I do not
know. The essence of that guidance was that I should tell the simple
truth to this fat savage. So I said to him:
"The answer is this, O king. Among those Boers is a maiden whom I love
and who betrothed herself to me since we were 'so high.' Her father
took her north. But she sent a message to me saying that her people
died of fever and she starved. So I went up in a ship to save her, and
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