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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: before. All day long the cries of victims came from a hundred
temple tops, and all night the sounds of revelry were heard among
the streets. 'Let us eat and drink,' they said, 'for the gods of
the sea are upon us and to-morrow we die.' Now women who had been
held virtuous proved themselves wantons, and men whose names were
honest showed themselves knaves, and none cried fie upon them; ay,
even children were seen drunken in the streets, which is an
abomination among the Aztecs.
The emperor had moved his household from Chapoltepec to the palace
in the great square facing the temple, and this palace was a town
in itself, for every night more than a thousand human beings slept
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