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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: my body and a cloth about my loins. Now I knew that my hour had
come, and strange to tell, for the first time this day courage
entered into me, and I rejoiced to think that soon I should have
done with my tormentors. Turning to Otomie I began to bid her
farewell in a clear voice, when to my amaze I saw that as I had
been served so she was being served, for her splendid robes were
torn off her and she stood before me arrayed in nothing except her
beauty, her flowing hair, and a broidered cotton smock.
'Do not wonder, Teule,' she said in a low voice, answering the
question my tongue refused to frame, 'I am your wife and yonder is
our marriage bed, the first and last. Though you do not love me,
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