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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: promise, though, as was to be expected from one of your years, you
lack experience. There is stuff in you, senor, and you have a
heart, which is a good thing, for the blunders of a man with a
heart often carry him further than the cunning of the cynic; also
you have a will and know how to direct it.'
I bowed, and did my best to hold back my satisfaction at his words
from showing in my face.
'Still,' he went on, 'all this would not cause me to submit to you
the offer that I am about to make, for many a prettier fellow than
yourself is after all unlucky, or a fool at the bottom, or bad
tempered and destined to the dogs, as for aught I know you may be
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