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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: "Tell me, Heer Marais," I remarked, answering the look, "why should I of
all people go to look for the Heer Pereira, one who has not dealt too
well with me?"
"I do not know, Allan. Yet the Book tells us to turn the other cheek
and to forget injuries. Still, it is for you to judge, remembering that
we must answer for all things at the last day, and not for me. I only
know that were I your age and not burdened with a daughter to watch
over, _I_ should go."
"Why should you talk to me thus?" I asked with indignation. "Why do you
not go yourself, seeing that I am quite ready to look after Marie?"
(Here the Vrouw Prinsloo and the other Boers tittered.) "And why do you
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