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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: character of what I have now to tell. Prudence and delicacy alike
ought to have forbid the camp of Tamasese to the feet of either
Leary or Moors. Moors was the original - there was a time when he
had been the only - opponent of the puppet king. Leary had driven
him from the seat of government; it was but a week or two since he
had threatened to bombard him in his present refuge. Both were in
close and daily council with his adversary, and it was no secret
that Moors was supplying the latter with food. They were
partisans; it lacked but a hair that they should be called
belligerents; it were idle to try to deny they were the most
dangerous of spies. And yet these two now sailed across the bay
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