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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: 'Your name. I don't know your face, though it seems that you have
been in the wars,' and he laughed.
'You mustn't ask a comrade his name,' I said solemnly and swinging
to and fro. 'The captain might send for me and he's a temperate
man. Your arm, girl; it is time to go to sleep, the sun sets.'
They laughed, but one of them addressed Otomie, saying:
'Leave the sot, my pretty, and come and walk with us,' and he
caught her by the arm. But she turned on him with so fierce a look
that he let her go again astonished, and we staggered on till the
corner of another house hid us from their view. Here I sank to the
ground overcome with pain, for while the soldiers were in sight, I
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