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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: these sudden sounds of war scattered consternation through the
town.
Two British subjects, Hetherington-Carruthers, a solicitor, and
Maben, a land-surveyor - the first being in particular a man well
versed in the native mind and language - hastened at once to their
consul; assured him the Mataafas would be roused to fury by this
onslaught in the neutral zone, that the German quarter would be
certainly attacked, and the rest of the town and white inhabitants
exposed to a peril very difficult of estimation; and prevailed upon
him to intrust them with a mission to the king. By the time they
reached headquarters, the warriors were already taking post round
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