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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: body, arousing indignation where it came. To such results are
nations conducted by the patent artifices of a Becker.
The discussion of the morning, the silent menace and defiance of
the voyage to Laulii, might have set the best-natured by the ears.
But Knappe and de Coetlogon took their difference in excellent
part. On the morrow, November 16th, they sat down together with
Blacklock in conference. The English consul introduced his
colleagues, who shook hands. If Knappe were dead-weighted with the
inheritance of Becker, Blacklock was handicapped by reminiscences
of Leary; it is the more to the credit of this inexperienced man
that he should have maintained in the future so excellent an
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