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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: 'Do you then suppose that I should choose one who was NOT a
stranger--one who might have ties within this city with which I was
unacquainted. And as for knowing nothing of you, young man, do you
think that I have followed this strange trade of mine for forty
years without learning to judge at sight? Perhaps I know you
better than you know yourself. By the way, the fact that you are
deeply enamoured of that maid whom you have left in England is a
recommendation to me, for whatever follies you may commit, you will
scarcely embarrass me and yourself by suffering your affections to
be seriously entangled. Ah! have I astonished you?'
'How do you know?' I began--then ceased.
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