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Montezuma’s Daughter

CHAPTER XXXVI
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For I tell you that I would have sat beneath yonder devil's house,' and he nodded towards the teocalli, 'till you starved upon its top.

Nay, friend Wingfield, take back the sword.

I suited myself with another many years ago, and you have used this one gallantly; never have I seen Indians make a better fight.

And so that is Otomie, Montezuma's daughter and your wife, still handsome and royal, I see.

Lord! Lord! it is many years ago, and yet it seems but yesterday that I saw her father die, a Christian-hearted man, though no Christian, and one whom we dealt ill with.


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