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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: Guard (who had principally protected the people), badly wounded by
a Municipal Guard, stretched on a litter. He was in possession of
his senses. He was surrounded by a troop of men crying "Our brave
captain - we have him yet - he's not dead! VIVE LA REFORME!" This
cry was responded to by all, and every one saluted him as he
passed. I do not know if he was mortally wounded. That Third
Legion has behaved splendidly.
'I then returned, and shortly afterwards went out again to the
garden of the Tuileries. They were given up to the people and the
palace was being sacked. The people were firing blank cartridges
to testify their joy, and they had a cannon on the top of the
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