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: suffer that we die in peace?' asked Otomie.
'I am Marina,' answered the veiled woman, 'and I come to save you
if I can.'
CHAPTER XXX
THE ESCAPE
Now Otomie put the rope off her neck, and descending from the
stool, stood before Marina.
'You are Marina,' she said coldly and proudly, 'and you come to
save us, you who have brought ruin on the land that bore you, and
have given thousands of her children to death, and shame, and
torment. Now, if I had my way, I would have none of your
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