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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: So I swore, and very soon my oath must be put to the test, for at a
motion from de Garcia the Tlascalans seized me and bound me to the
third chair.
Then he spoke into my ear in Castilian: 'Strange are the ways of
Providence, Cousin Wingfield. You have hunted me across the world,
and several times we have met, always to your sorrow. I thought I
had you in the slave ship, I thought that the sharks had you in the
water, but somehow you escaped me whom you came to hunt. When I
knew it I grieved, but now I grieve no more, for I see that you
were reserved for this moment. Cousin Wingfield, it shall go hard
if you escape me this time, and yet I think that we shall spend
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