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Updated: June 4, 2025
Husband, I sorrow over all that has befallen us and my people also, though these are but little things, because you are brought low and treated as a man of no estate, and of the cold comfort that we find here. 'You have cause, wife, I answered. 'Say, what will these Otomies do with us kill us, or give us up to the Teules?
This done, I drew my sword and cried: 'The Teules storm the temple! which was true, for already their long line was rushing up the winding path. 'The Teules storm the temple, I go to stop them, and straightway we sped across the open space.
'The counsel of the wolf to the deer perhaps, said Cuitlahua, coldly; 'counsel that shall lead us to the fangs of the Teules. Who shall answer for this foreign devil, that he will not betray us if we trust him? 'I will answer with my life, answered Guatemoc. 'Your life is of too great worth to be set on such a stake, nephew.
Had it not been for the coming of these accursed Teules, and the war that they have levied in the city, I had surely saved you, for a woman's thought leaps far, and can find a path where none seems possible. But this war has changed everything, and moreover the star-readers and diviners of auguries have given a prophecy which seals your fate.
'That I will, he said, and then we let him down among his friends, whom he reached in safety. Now we returned to the temple, giving it out that the Spaniards were in retreat, having failed to cross the breach in the roadway. Here before the temple the orgie still went on. But two Indians remained alive; and the priests of sacrifice grew weary. 'Where are the Teules? cried a voice.
'My speech with you, princess, and the Teule your outlawed husband, shall be short and sharp, he began roughly. 'A while hence you came hither to seek an army to aid Cuitlahua, Emperor of the Aztecs, in his struggle with the Teules, the sons of Quetzal.
Now the sticks that Malinche has used to beat out the brains of Guatemoc shall be broken and burnt to cook the pot of the Teules. Already these false children are his slaves. Have you not heard his command, that the tribes his allies shall labour in the quarries and the streets till the glorious city which he has burned rises afresh upon the face of the waters?
For Guatemoc prayed him again and yet again to put away his fears and declare open war upon the Teules before it was too late; to cease from making gifts and sending embassies, to gather his countless armies and smite the foe in the mountain passes. But Montezuma would answer, 'To what end, nephew? How can I struggle against these men when the gods themselves have declared for them?
Now I looked at Guatemoc who had slain him, wondering if my hour was at hand also, for I knew well that when princes bury their wealth they hold that few should share the secret. 'Fear not, my brother, said Guatemoc. 'Listen: this man was a thief, a dastard, and a traitor. As we know now, he strove twice to betray us to the Teules.
Nay, I set out my case and I said "Now choose." You chose, and of your own free will you despatched those glorious companies that now are dead. My crime is therefore that you chose wrongly as you say, but as I still hold, most rightly, and because of this crime I and my husband are to be given as a peace offering to the Teules.
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