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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: that my people were loyal and true. But now we must make ready for
war, for they have gone too far to turn back, and when this tidings
comes to the ears of Malinche he will be like a puma robbed of her
young. Now, let us rest, I am very weary.'
'Otomie,' I answered, 'there has lived no greater woman than you
upon this earth.'
'I cannot tell, husband,' she said, smiling; 'if I have won your
praise and safety, it is enough for me.'
CHAPTER XXXII
THE END OF GUATEMOC
Now for a while we dwelt in quiet at the City of Pines, and by slow
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