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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: and in the end the Senor Sarceda, who is third in command among us,
declared that he would be no party to this peacemaking, but would
be gone to Mexico with his servants, there to report to the
viceroy. Then the Captain Diaz bade him begone to hell if he
wished and report to the devil, saying that he had always believed
that he had escaped thence by mistake, and they parted in wrath
who, since the day of noche triste, never loved each other much;
the end of it being that Sarceda rides for Mexico within an hour,
to make what mischief he can at the viceroy's court, and I think
that you are well rid of him.'
'Father,' said my son to me, 'who is that Spaniard who looks so
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