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Montezuma’s Daughter

CHAPTER XXIII
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What is to be done with this man?
Say, is it lawful that he be led back to sacrifice ?' Then the priest answered: 'I grieve to say that it is not lawful most noble prince.

This man has lain on the altar of the god, he has even been wounded by the holy knife.

But the god rejected him in a fateful hour, and he must lie there no more.

Slay him if you will, but not upon the stone of sacrifice.' 'What then shall be done with him ?' said the prince again.
'He is of the blood of the Teules, and therefore an enemy.

One thing is certain; he must not be suffered to join the white devils and give them tidings of our distresses.


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