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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: blood boiled in me, but I thought it wise to control myself, and
therefore only answered:
"Thank you."
"Of course," he went on, "we have both striven for this prize, but as it
has pleased God that you should win it, why, I am not one to bear
malice."
"I am glad to hear it," I replied. "I thought that perhaps you might
be. Now tell me, to change the subject, how long will Dingaan keep us
here?"
"Oh! two or three days at most. You see, Allan, luckily I have been
able to persuade him to sign the treaty about the land without further
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