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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: made Hernando Pereira very angry, although he needed no more money, and
had caused him to throw himself heart and soul into the schemes of the
disaffected Boers. Indeed, he was now engaged as one of the organisers
of the Great Trek which was in contemplation. In fact, it had already
begun, into the partially explored land beyond the borders of the
Colony, where the Dutch farmers proposed to set up dominions of their
own.
That was the story of Hernando Pereira, who was to be--nay, who had
already become--my rival for the hand of the sweet and beautiful Marie
Marais.
One night when my father and I were alone in the little room where he
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