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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 to no other man.'
'At the least you have courage, hussey,' said her father. 'But
listen now, either you will marry where and when I wish, or tramp
it for your bread. Ungrateful girl, did I breed you to flaunt me
to my face? Now for you, pill-box. I will teach you to come
kissing honest men's daughters without their leave,' and with a
curse he rushed at me, stick aloft, to thrash me.
Then for the second time that day my quick blood boiled in me, and
snatching up the Spaniard's sword that lay upon the grass beside
me, I held it at the point, for the game was changed, and I who had
fought with cudgel against sword, must now fight with sword against
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