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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: builders had fallen, would be raised so high that our slugs could no
longer hurt those who lay behind it. Also, our supply of ammunition was
limited, and the constant expenditure wasted it so much that at length
only about six charges per man remained. At last, indeed, I was obliged
to order the firing to cease, so that we might reserve ourselves for the
great rush which could not now be much delayed.
Finding that they were no longer harassed by our bullets, the Quabies
advanced more rapidly, directing their attack upon the south end of the
house, where there was but one window, and thus avoiding the fire that
might be poured upon them from the various openings under the veranda.
At first I wondered why they selected this end, till Marie reminded me
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