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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: show them wrong, that Mataafa, even after his coronation, delayed
extremely: a proof of how long two days may seem to last when men
anticipate events. On the evening of the 11th, while the new king
was already on the march, one of these walked into Matautu. The
moon was bright. By the way he observed the native houses dark and
silent; the men had been about a fortnight in the bush, but now the
women and children were gone also; at which he wondered. On the
sea-beach, in the camp of the Tamaseses, the solitude was near as
great; he saw three or four men smoking before the British
consulate, perhaps a dozen in all; the rest were behind in the bush
upon their line of forts. About the midst he sat down, and here a
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