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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: sure that this evil will recoil upon your own head, not only here, but
hereafter. There justice will be done to both of us, perhaps before
very long, and also to your nephew, Hernan Pereira."
Marais made no answer; his rage seemed to have spent itself. He only
sat himself again upon the disselboom of the wagon and went on cutting
up the tobacco viciously, as though he were slicing the heart of a foe.
Even the Vrouw Prinsloo was silent and stared at him whilst she fanned
herself with the vatdoek. But Retief spoke.
"I wonder if you are mad, or only wicked, Henri Marais," he said. "To
curse your own sweet girl like this you must be one or the other--a
single child who has always been good to you. Well, as you are to ride
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