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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: man that I dreamed to see standing by Marie's side. But he is not here;
he has disgraced and deserted me. Well, I will come, if my gaolers will
suffer it. Good-bye, you happy bridegroom of to-morrow, good-bye."
Then he swung round and departed, followed by the guards, one of whom
touched his brow and shook his head significantly as he passed me.
I think that Sunday seemed the longest day I ever spent. The Vrouw
Prinsloo would scarcely allow me even a glimpse of Marie, because of
some fad she had got into her mind that it was either not proper or not
fortunate, I forget which, that a bride and bridegroom should associate
on the eve of their marriage. So I occupied myself as best I could.
First I wrote a long letter to my father, the third that I had sent,
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