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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: painting of the resurrection of the dead that is over the chancel
arch in this church of Ditchingham. And hour by hour through the
darkness, a voice called out threats and warnings to the Spaniards,
saying, 'Huitzel is hungry for your blood, ye Teules, ye shall
surely follow where ye have seen your fellows go: the cages are
ready, the knives are sharp, and the irons are hot for the torture.
Prepare, ye Teules, for though ye slay many, ye cannot escape.'
Thus the struggle went on day after day, till thousands of the
Aztecs were dead, and the Spaniards were well nigh worn out with
hunger, war, and wounds, for they could not rest a single hour. At
length one morning, when the assault was at its hottest, Montezuma
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