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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: the shameful end of his only son. After that date also he broke
his friendship with the prior of St. Mary's at Bungay, and ceased
his offerings to the priory. Still he did not believe that my
father was dead in truth, since on the last day of his own life,
that ended two years later, he spoke of him as a living man, and
left messages to him as to the management of the lands which now
were his.
And in the end it became clear that this belief was not ill-
founded, for one day three years after the old man's death, there
landed at the port of Yarmouth none other than my father, who had
been absent some eight years in all. Nor did he come alone, for
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