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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: their shoulders, and presented only an arc of brown faces, black
heads, and attentive eyes fixed on his majesty. Long pauses
reigned, during which the subjects stared and the king smoked.
Then Tembinok' would raise his voice and speak shrilly and briefly.
There was never a response in words; but if the speech were
jesting, there came by way of answer discreet, obsequious laughter
- such laughter as we hear in schoolrooms; and if it were
practical, the sudden uprising and departure of the squad. Twice
they so disappeared, and returned with further elements of the
city: a second house and a second maniap'. It was singular to
spy, far off through the coco stems, the silent oncoming of the
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