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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: have brought the house down, and the island audience roared with
laughter and applause. This filled up the measure for the rival
company, and they forgot themselves and decency. After each act or
figure of the ballet, the performers pause a moment standing, and
the next is introduced by the clapping of hands in triplets. Not
until the end of the whole ballet do they sit down, which is the
signal for the rivals to stand up. But now all rules were to be
broken. During the interval following on this great applause, the
company of Butaritari leaped suddenly to their feet and most
unhandsomely began a performance of their own. It was strange to
see the men of Makin staring; I have seen a tenor in Europe stare
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