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By Right of Conquest

CHAPTER 6: Anahuac
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She had learned, from their conversation, that her mother desired her son to inherit all her possessions; and that she had, therefore, sold her to these traders.

The daughter of one of her slaves had died that evening, and she intended to give out that Malinche was dead, and to celebrate her funeral in the usual way.

The traders had brought her to Tabasco, and sold her to the cazique of that town.
"But this mother of yours must be an infamous woman, Malinche," Roger said indignantly, "thus to sell away her own daughter to be a slave!" "Girls are not much good," Malinche said, sadly.

"They cannot fight, and they cannot govern a people.

It was natural that my mother should prefer her son to me, and should wish to see him a cazique, when he grew up." Roger refused to see the matter in that light, at all, and was indignant at Malinche for the forbearance that she showed, in speaking of the author of her misfortunes.
This conversation had taken place at the time when Roger had first learned to converse in the Tabascan language.


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