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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: complaining of his language in the hearing of German officials, and
how he had declared that, on the ADLER again interfering, he would
interfere himself, "if he went to the bottom for it - UND WENN SEIN
SCHIFF DABEI ZU GRUNDE GINGE." Here is the style of opposition
which has the merit of being frank, not that of being agreeable.
Becker was annoying, Leary infuriating; there is no doubt that the
tempers in the German consulate were highly ulcerated; and if war
between the two countries did not follow, we must set down the
praise to the forbearance of the German navy. This is not the last
time that I shall have to salute the merits of that service.
The defeat and death of Saifaleupolu and the burning of Manono had
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