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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: Alas! we have nothing so thrilling to relate. All hangs and fools
on in this isle of misgovernment, without change, though not
without novelty, but wholly without hope, unless perhaps you should
consider it hopeful that I am still more immediately threatened
with arrest. The confounded thing is, that if it comes off, I
shall be sent away in the Ringarooma instead of the CURACOA. The
former ship burst upon by the run - she had been sent off by
despatch and without orders - and to make me a little more easy in
my mind she brought newspapers clamouring for my incarceration.
Since then I have had a conversation with the German Consul. He
said he had read a review of my Samoa book, and if the review were
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