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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: speak for you, and let him set out the desire of your hearts.'
Now the tumult began again, for some shouted one name and some
another, but in the end a priest and noble named Maxtla stepped
forward, a man of great power among the Otomie, who, above all had
favoured an alliance with the Spaniards and opposed the sending of
an army to aid Guatemoc in the defence of Tenoctitlan. Nor did he
come alone, for with him were four chiefs, whom by their dress I
knew to be Tlascalans and envoys from Cortes. Then my heart sank,
for it was not difficult to guess the object of their coming.
'Speak on, Maxtla,' said Otomie, 'for we must hear what there is
for us to answer, and you, people of the Otomie, I pray you keep
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