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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: you would thrust upon me. And may the gods be my witness again
that were my life my own, and not a trust in the hands of this
people, I would say to you, "Seek on and find one worthier to fill
the throne." But my life is not my own. Anahuac calls her son and
I obey the call. War to the death threatens her, and shall I hang
back while my arm has strength to smite and my brain has power to
plan? Not so. Now and henceforth I vow myself to the service of
my country and to war against the Teules. I will make no peace
with them, I will take no rest till they are driven back whence
they came, or till I am dead beneath their swords. None can say
what the gods have in store for us, it may be victory or it may be
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