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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: men, and who wins, wins, and who loses, loses. Now hear me, Macumazahn,
and remember what I say. Whatever happens to others, whatever you may
see, you are safe while I live. Dingaan has spoken. Whether I get the
tall white girl, or do not get her, still _you_ are safe; it is on my
head," and he touched the gum-ring in his hair.
"And why should I be safe if others are unsafe, O king?" I asked.
"Oh! if you would know that, ask a certain ancient prophet named Zikali,
who was in this land in the days of Senzangacona, my father, and before
then--that is, if you can find him. Also, I like you, who are not a
flat-faced fool like these Amaboona, but have a brain that turns in and
out through difficulties, as a snake does through reeds; and it would be
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