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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: CHAPTER XXXIX
THOMAS COMES BACK FROM THE DEAD
Now on the morrow of my visit to Marina, the Captain Diaz came to
see me and told me that a friend of his was in command of a carak
which was due to sail from the port of Vera Cruz for Cadiz within
ten days, and that this friend was willing to give me a passage if
I wished to leave Mexico. I thought for a while and said that I
would go, and that very night, having bid farewell to the Captain
Diaz, whom may God prosper, for he was a good man among many bad
ones, I set out from the city for the last time in the company of
some merchants. A week's journey took us safely down the mountains
Montezuma's Daughter |
