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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 for my part I was so weary that after I had eaten I never slept
more soundly. Next morning the struggle began anew; and this time
with better success to the Spaniards. Inch by inch under cover of
the heavy fire from their arquebusses and pieces, they forced us
upward and backward. All day long the fight continued upon the
narrow road that wound from stage to stage of the pyramid. At
length, as the sun sank, a company of our foes, their advance
guard, with shouts of victory, emerged upon the flat summit, and
rushed towards the temple in its centre. All this while the women
had been watching, but now one of them sprang up, crying with a
loud voice:
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