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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: priests whom the Spaniards were hurling from the crest of the
teocalli. Once looking up, I caught sight of de Garcia pursuing
far above us, but after that we saw him no more; doubtless he
wearied of the chase, or feared to fall into the hands of such of
the Aztec warriors as still clustered round the foot of the
pyramid.
We had lived through many dangers that day, the princess Otomie and
I, but one more awaited us before ever we found shelter for awhile.
After we had reached the foot of the pyramid and turned to mingle
with the terrified rabble that surged and flowed through the
courtyard of the temple, bearing away the dead and wounded as the
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