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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: For all this while she did nothing but rave of me, and the secret
terror of her heart was disclosed--that I should cease to care for
her, that her beauty and love might pall upon me so that I should
leave her, that 'the flower maid,' for so she named Lily, who dwelt
across the sea should draw me back to her by magic; this was the
burden of her madness. At length her senses returned and she
spoke, saying:
'How long have I lain ill, husband?'
I told her and she said, 'And have you nursed me all this while,
and through so foul a sickness?'
'Yes, Otomie, I have tended you.'
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