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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: enough for a young man to begin life on, even with a wife. Indeed
there in England it may well be held a great fortune, and I think
that your betrothed's father will make no more objection to you as
a son-in-law. Also there is this house and all that it contains;
the library and the silver are valuable, and you will do well to
keep them. All is left to you with the fullest formality, so that
no question can arise as to your right to take it; indeed,
foreseeing my end, I have of late called in my moneys, and for the
most part the gold lies in strong boxes in the secret cupboard in
the wall yonder that you know of. It would have been more had I
known you some years ago, for then, thinking that I grew too rich
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