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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: the Don had been scrubbed somewhat clean with a bunch of rushes.
"Kill him, as your grandfather did Atahuallpa?"
"My grandfather," answered the Spaniard, indignantly, "was one of
those who, to their eternal honor, protested to the last against
that most cruel and unknightly massacre. He could be terrible to
the heathen; but he kept his plighted word, sir, and taught me to
keep mine, as you have seen to-day."
"I have, senor," said Amyas. "You might have given us the slip
easily enough just now, and did not. Pardon me, if I have offended
you."
The Spaniard (who, after all, was cross principally with himself
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