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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: result, however, followed: the whites persuaded the Samoan; and
the attack was countermanded, to the benefit of all concerned, and
not least of Mataafa. To the benefit of all, I say; for I do not
think the Germans were that evening in a posture to resist; the
liquor-cellars of the firm must have fallen into the power of the
insurgents; and I will repeat my formula that a mob is a mob, a
drunken mob is a drunken mob, and a drunken mob with weapons in its
hands is a drunken mob with weapons in its hands, all the world
over.
In the opinion of some, then, the town had narrowly escaped
destruction, or at least the miseries of a drunken sack. To the
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