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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: suffered in the donning of those garments, and more especially in
the pulling of the long boot on to my burnt foot, can never be
told, but more than once I stopped, pondering whether it would not
be better to die rather than to endure such agonies. At last it
was done, and Otomie must put on the red and yellow robe, a garb of
shame such as many honest Indian women would die sooner than be
seen in, and I think that as she did this, her agony was greater
than mine, though of another sort, for to her proud heart, that
dress was a very shirt of Nessus. Presently she was clad, and
minced before me with savage mockery, saying:
'Prithee, soldier, do I look my part?'
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