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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: dancers be armed?'
'No, it is not usual.'
'They will be unarmed, Guatemoc, and they are the flower of the
land. Unarmed they will dance in yonder enclosed space, and the
Teules will watch them armed. Now, how would it be if these
chanced to pick a quarrel with the nobles?'
'I do not know why you should speak thus, Teule, for surely these
white men are not cowardly murderers, still I take your words as an
omen, and though the feast must be held, for see already the nobles
gather, I will not share in it.'
'You are wise, Guatemoc,' I said. 'I am sure that you are wise'
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