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Excerpt from Fernand Cortez: Ou, la Conqu te du Mexique
On devine l'effet que produisit cette nouvelle inattendue sur des ambitions m ridionales. Tous mirent en commun leur d pit, leurs intrigues. Chaque jour, le gouverneur tait obs d . Cortez ne visait, disaient-ils qu' se faire des partisans. Il venait peine de recevoir son brevet et d j sa fortune et celle de sa femme taient d pens es; ses riches plantations taient engag es; il lui fallait encore recourir la bourse de ses amis et tout y passait. Ne serait - il pas forc , par la n cessit m me, de conqu rir pour son compte?
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