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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: of these ladies answered well to Otomie, my wife, and she was put
up to auction by the brute who won her in the gamble, and sold to a
common soldier for a hundred pesos. For these men never doubted
but that the women and the gold would be handed over to them.
Thus things went for several days, during which I sat and slept in
my prison untroubled by any, except the native woman who waited on
me and brought me food in plenty. During those days I ate as I
have never eaten before or since, and I slept much, for my sorrows
could not rid my body of its appetites and commanding need for food
and rest. Indeed I verily believe that at the end of a week, I had
increased in weight by a full half; also my weariness was conquered
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