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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: coquetted with the thought of patronising him; but the project had
no sequel, and it stands alone. In every other juncture of history
the German attitude has been the same. Choose whom you will to be
king; when he has failed, choose whom you please to succeed him;
when the second fails also, replace the first: upon the one
condition, that Mataafa be excluded. "POURVU QU'IL SACHE SIGNER!"
- an official is said to have thus summed up the qualifications
necessary in a Samoan king. And it was perhaps feared that Mataafa
could do no more and might not always do so much. But this
original diffidence was heightened by late events to something
verging upon animosity. Fangalii was unavenged: the arms of
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