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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: place by force of arms, they called a parley with us.
I went down to the breach in the roadway and spoke with their
envoy, who stood upon the path below. At first the terms offered
were that we should surrender at discretion. To this I answered
that sooner than do so we would die where we were. Their reply was
that if we would give over all who had any part in the human
sacrifice, the rest of us might go free. To this I said that the
sacrifice had been carried out by women and some few men, and that
all of these were dead by their own hands. They asked if Otomie
was also dead. I told them no, but that I would never surrender
unless they swore that neither she nor her son should be harmed,
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