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Montezuma’s Daughter

CHAPTER XVI
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Order and your commands shall be obeyed, think and your thought shall be executed before it can pass your lips.

O Tezcat, I, Montezuma your servant, offer you my adoration, and through me the adoration of all my people,' and again he bowed the knee.
'We adore you, O Tezcat!' chimed in the priests.
Now I remained silent and bewildered, for of all this foolery I could understand nothing, and while I stood thus Montezuma clapped his hands and women entered bearing beautiful clothing with them, and a wreath of flowers.

The clothing they put upon my body and the wreath of flowers on my head, worshipping me the while and saying, 'Tezcat who died yesterday is come again.

Be joyful, Tezcat has come again in the body of the captive Teule.' Then I understood that I was now a god and the greatest of gods, though at that moment within myself I felt more of a fool than I had ever been before.
And now men appeared, grave and reverend in appearance, bearing lutes in their hands.

I was told that these were my tutors, and with them a train of royal pages who were to be my servants.


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