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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: clothed with power like a god. Nearly forty years ago, so I have
heard, he died poor and disgraced in Spain; he, the conqueror--yes,
and I have learned also that his son Don Martin has been put to the
torture in that city which the father won with so great cruelties
for Spain. Malinche, she whom the Spaniards named Marina, the
chief and best beloved of all the women of this same Cortes,
foretold it to him in her anguish when after all that had been,
after she had so many times preserved him and his soldiers to look
upon the sun, at the last he deserted her, giving her in marriage
to Don Juan Xaramillo. Look again at the fate of Marina herself.
Because she loved this man Cortes, or Malinche, as the Indians
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