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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: him to be dead. If you will give me money to help me on my quest,
so be it--if not I go without. I swear before God and by my
mother's spirit that I will neither rest nor stay till with the
very sword that slew her, I have avenged her blood upon her
murderer or know him dead, and if I suffer myself to be led astray
from the purpose of this oath by aught that is, then may a worse
end than hers overtake me, may my soul be rejected in heaven, and
my name be shameful for ever upon the earth!'
Thus I swore in my rage and anguish, holding up my hand to heaven
that I called upon to witness the oath.
My father looked at me keenly. 'If that is your mind, son Thomas,
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