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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: it is natural in a young man who wishes to found a House, and therefore
I give you leave to marry."
"Yebo, Silo!" (Yes, O Wild Beast!) I thank the King, but--"
Here I sneezed loudly, and he ceased.
"But," repeated Panda, "of course, you do not know where to find a wife
between the time the hawk stoops and the rat squeaks in its claws. How
should you who have never thought of the matter? Also," he continued,
with a smile, "it is well that you have not thought of it, since she
whom I shall give to you could not live in the second hut in your kraal
and call another "Inkosikazi" [that is, head lady or chieftainess].
Umbelazi, my son, go fetch her of whom we have thought as a bride for
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