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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: Beppo, for his shoes were dusty, his clothes were travel-stained,
and a razor had not touched his face for a week.
The king of that country was walking in the garden under the
shade of the trees, and the sunlight slanted down upon him, and
sparkled upon the jewels around his neck and on his fingers. Two
dogs walked alongside of him, and a whole crowd of lords and
nobles and courtiers came behind him; first of all the
prime-minister with his long staff.
But for all this fine show this king was not really the king.
When the old king died he left a daughter, and she should have
been queen if she had had her own rights. But this king, who was
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