[Montezuma’s Daughter by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookMontezuma’s Daughter CHAPTER V 12/24
I would go myself, for blood must be wiped out with blood, but I am too broken in my health; also I am known in Spain and the Holy Office would claim me there.
Go, and my blessing go with you.
It is right that you should go, for it is through your folly that our enemy has escaped us.' 'Yes, it is right that he should go,' said Geoffrey. 'You say that because you wish to be rid of me, Geoffrey,' I answered hotly, 'and you would be rid of me because you desire to take my place at the side of a certain maid.
Follow your nature and do as you will, but if you would outwit an absent man no good shall come to you of it.' 'The girl is to him who can win her,' he said. 'The girl's heart is won already, Geoffrey.
You may buy her from her father but you can never win her heart, and without a heart she will be but a poor prize.' 'Peace! now is no time for such talk of love and maids,' said my father, 'and listen.
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