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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: down the bridle-path towards the common footbridge, when suddenly
my mother called me back.
'Kiss me before you go, Thomas,' she said. 'You must wonder what
all this may mean. One day your father will tell you. It has to
do with a shadow which has hung over my life for many years, but
that is, I trust, gone for ever.'
'If it be a man who flings it, he had best keep out of reach of
this,' I said, laughing, and shaking my thick stick.
'It is a man,' she answered, 'but one to be dealt with otherwise
than by blows, Thomas, should you ever chance to meet him.'
'May be, mother, but might is the best argument at the last, for
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