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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: town. A year ago, on a knoll behind a bar-room, he might have
observed a native house guarded by sentries and flown over by the
standard of Samoa. He would then have been told it was the seat of
government, driven (as I have to relate) over the Mulivai and from
beyond the German town into the Anglo-Saxon. To-day, he will learn
it has been carted back again to its old quarters. And he will
think it significant that the king of the islands should be thus
shuttled to and fro in his chief city at the nod of aliens. And
then he will observe a feature more significant still: a house
with some concourse of affairs, policemen and idlers hanging by, a
man at a bank-counter overhauling manifests, perhaps a trial
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