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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: face in his hands and broke into sobs that were dreadful to hear.
'Would that you had told us this tale before, father,' I said so
soon as I could speak. 'Then there would have lived a devil the
less in the world to-day, and I should have been spared a long
journey.'
Little did I know how long that journey would be!
CHAPTER VI
GOOD-BYE, SWEETHEART
Within twelve days of the burial of my mother and the telling of
the story of his marriage to her by my father, I was ready to start
upon my search. As it chanced a vessel was about to sail from
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