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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: do so.
For two hours or more we talked, and when I had heard her story I
told her mine, and she wept for me, since with all her faults
Marina's heart was ever gentle.
Then we parted never to meet again. Before I went she pressed a
gift of money on me, and I was not ashamed to take it who had none.
This then was the history of Marina, who betrayed her country for
her love's sake, and this the reward of her treason and her love.
But I shall always hold her memory sacred, for she was a good
friend to me, and twice she saved my life, nor would she desert me,
even when Otomie taunted her so cruelly.
Montezuma's Daughter |
