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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: We had once supplied them during a visit with a pipe and tobacco;
and when they had smoked and were about to leave, they found
themselves confronted with a problem: should they take or leave
what remained of the tobacco? The piece of plug was taken up, it
was laid down again, it was handed back and forth, and argued over,
till the wife began to look haggard and the husband elderly. They
ended by taking it, and I wager were not yet clear of the compound
before they were sure they had decided wrong. Another time they
had been given each a liberal cup of coffee, and Nan Tok' with
difficulty and disaffection made an end of his. Nei Takauti had
taken some, she had no mind for more, plainly conceived it would be
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