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So invaluable were her services to Cortes that it is doubtful if without her aid he would have succeeded in conquering Mexico, and it was from her that he acquired the name of Malinche by which he was known among the Indian races. Her reward, when she had served his purpose and he was weary of her, was to be given by him in marriage to another man.
You, Malinche, are his ambassador; you and your brethren shall share these things with me. Rest now from your labours. You are here in your own dwellings, and everything shall be provided for your subsistence. I will see that your wishes shall be obeyed in the same way as my own.
One day, when Roger was dressing in the morning, he heard excited talking in the street, and the sound of hurrying feet. "What has happened this morning, Malinche?" he called out. "The merchants have come," she said. "The merchants from my country."
Alvarado's men had prospered in their attack, and were steadily advancing toward the marketplace, when, all of a sudden, they found themselves encountered by an immense body of Mexican troops, splendidly accoutred, who threw before them five heads of Spaniards and kept shouting out, 'Thus we will slay you, as we have slain Malinche and Sandoval, whose heads these are. With these words they commenced an attack of such fury, and came so close to hand with the Spaniards, that they could not use their cross-bows, their muskets, or even their swords.
He might be well received in this new country, but he might be sacrificed to these gods of theirs; and in that case Malinche might share his fate as she said that even women were offered up. Even if well received, he might not be able to have Malinche with him. Besides, of course he did not want her as an attendant, and in what other capacity could she go?
"I think," she said, "that they would sacrifice you in the temples. All our gods love sacrifices, and every year countless persons are offered up to them." "It is a horrible custom, Malinche." Malinche did not seem to be impressed, as he expected. "Why?" she asked. "They would be killed in battle, were they not kept for sacrifice.
Cortez had only just risen, for the hour was still very early, and the sun was but now showing himself over the mountains to the east. He was taking a cup of chocolate. "That is all right," he said to the officer, as soon as he saw Roger. "Sancho has been absent upon my orders." He then called Malinche from an adjoining room.
"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."
She is very, very weak; but the leech thinks that if she sees you, and knows that you are safe and well, it will rouse her and put her in the way of recovery. You must not talk to her, or excite her in any way." Roger followed Malinche into her room.
As they had no mind for any more fighting they came humbly, bringing presents, and among them thirty slaves, one of whom, a beautiful Mexican girl named Malinche, was afterwards of the utmost importance to the expedition.
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