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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: What is it that my ears hear? That I, the Indwande dwarf, I whom
Chaka named 'The-Thing-that-never-should-have-been-born,' I, one
of the race conquered and despised by the Zulus, am here to speak
a word which the Zulus dare not utter, which the King of the
Zulus dares not utter. O-ho-ho-ho! And what does the King offer
to me? A fee, a great fee for the word that shall paint the
Zulus red with blood or white with the slime of shame. Nay, I
take no fee that is the price of blood or shame. Before I speak
that word unknown--for as yet my heart has not heard it, and what
the heart has not heard the lips cannot shape--I ask but one
thing. It is an oath that whatever follows on the word, while
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