|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: remarkable than servile deliberation. The gang had here mustered
by the note of a deadly weapon; the man who looked on was the
unquestioned master of their lives; and except for civility, they
bestirred themselves like so many American hotel clerks. The
spectator was aware of an unobtrusive yet invincible inertia, at
which the skipper of a trading dandy might have torn his hair.
Yet the work was accomplished. By dusk, when his majesty withdrew,
the town was founded and complete, a new and ruder Amphion having
called it from nothing with three cracks of a rifle. And the next
morning the same conjurer obliged us with a further miracle: a
mystic rampart fencing us, so that the path which ran by our doors
|
