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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: standing in the game path which we were following, quite a quarter of a
mile from the wagons, with her hands set upon her broad hips and her
feet apart. Her attitude was so defiant, and had about it such an air
of premeditation, that I cannot help thinking she had got wind of our
return, perhaps from having seen the smoke of our last fires, and was
watching for us. Also, her greeting was warm.
"Ah! here you come, Hernan Pereira," she cried, "riding on an ox, while
better men walk. Well, now, I want a chat with you. How came it that
you went off in the night, taking the only horse and all the powder?"
"I went to get help for you," he replied sulkily.
"Did you, did you, indeed! Well, it seems that it was you who wanted
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