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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: before the investment. The colonel was abrupt and testy; Mrs. de
Coetlogon was too exclusive for society like that of Apia; but
whatever their superficial disabilities, it is strange they should
have left, in such an odour of unpopularity, a place where they set
so shining an example of the sterling virtues. The colonel was
perhaps no diplomatist; he was certainly no lawyer; but he
discharged the duties of his office with the constancy and courage
of an old soldier, and these were found sufficient. He and his
wife had no ambition to be the leaders of society; the consulate
was in their time no house of feasting; but they made of it that
house of mourning to which the preacher tells us it is better we
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