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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: watching him I thought that I could see the shadow of a half-
forgotten fear creep into his eyes. If so, it was soon gone, for
lifting his head, he spoke boldly and clearly.
'This is my message to you, Thomas Wingfield, and to such of the
Otomie dogs with whom you herd as we have left alive to-day. The
Captain Bernal Diaz offers you terms on behalf of his Excellency
the viceroy.'
'What are his terms?' I asked.
'Merciful enough to such pestilent rebels and heathens,' he
answered sneering. 'Surrender your city without condition, and the
viceroy, in his clemency, will accept the surrender. Nevertheless,
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