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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: scorned me--oh! I thought I should have died of shame when, after I
had caused myself to be given to you as wife, the wife of Tezcat,
you told me of the maid across the seas, that Lily maid whose token
is still set upon your finger. But I lived through it and I loved
you the better for your honesty, and then you know the rest. I won
you because I was brave and lay at your side upon the stone of
sacrifice, where you kissed me and told me that you loved me. But
you never loved me, not truly, all the while you were thinking of
the Lily maid. I knew it then, as I know it now, though I tried to
deceive myself. I was beautiful in those days and this is
something with a man. I was faithful and that is more, and once or
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