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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: months, the government (well housed themselves) have not yet found
- have not yet sought - a roof-tree for their sovereign. And the
lodging is typical. I take up the president's financial statement
of September 8, 1891. I find the king's allowance to figure at
seventy-five dollars a month; and I find that he is further (though
somewhat obscurely) debited with the salaries of either two or
three clerks. Take the outside figure, and the sum expended on or
for His Majesty amounts to ninety-five dollars in the month.
Lieutenant Ulfsparre and Dr. Hagberg (the chief justice's Swedish
friends) drew in the same period one hundred and forty and one
hundred dollars respectively on account of salary alone. And it
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