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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: woe (though they were beginning now to pick up their smiles
again), and this was the reason why:
The king of that country had died, and no one was left behind him
but the queen. But she was a prize, for not only was the kingdom
hers, but she was as young as a spring apple and as pretty as a
picture; so that there was no end of those who would have liked
to have had her, each man for his own. Even that day there were
three princes at the castle, each one wanting the queen to marry
him; and the wrangling and bickering and squabbling that was
going on was enough to deafen a body. The poor young queen was
tired to death with it all, and so she had come out into the
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