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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: watching for us. Also, her greeting was warm.
"Ah! here you come, Hernan Pereira," she cried, "riding on an ox, while
better men walk. Well, now, I want a chat with you. How came it that
you went off in the night, taking the only horse and all the powder?"
"I went to get help for you," he replied sulkily.
"Did you, did you, indeed! Well, it seems that it was you who wanted
the help, after all. What do you mean to pay the Heer Allan Quatermain
for saving your life, for I am sure he has done so? You have got no
goods left, although you were always boasting about your riches; they
are now at the bottom of a river, so it will have to be in love and
service."
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