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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: your master, who has been pleased to visit us for a space before he
seeks his home in the habitations of the Sun. See that you show
yourselves worthy of this honour. Comfort him and cherish him,
that he may forget his glory in your kindness, and when he returns
to his own place may take with him grateful memories and a good
report of your people. You have but a little while to live at his
side in this life, for already, like those of a caged bird, the
wings of his spirit beat against the bars of the flesh, and soon he
will shake himself free from us and you. Yet if you will, it is
allowed to one of you to accompany him to his home, sharing his
flight to the Houses of the Sun. But to all of you, whether you go
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