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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: being come, the priests made us fast with cords which they knotted
to copper rings in the pavement, and turned to watch the progress
of the fray.
For some minutes we lay thus side by side, and as we lay a great
wonder and gratitude grew in my heart, wonder that a woman could be
so brave, gratitude for the love she gave me, sealing it with her
life-blood. Because Otomie loved me she had chosen this fearful
death, because she loved me so well that she desired to die thus at
my side rather than to live on in greatness and honour without me.
Of a sudden, in a moment while I thought of this marvel, a new
light shone upon my heart and it was changed towards her. I felt
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