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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: endurance.
The physician meanwhile looked on him with a countenance of
surprise, not unmingled with contempt; for the Eastern people
make no allowance for these mercurial changes in the temper, and
consider open laughter, upon almost any account, as derogatory to
the dignity of man, and becoming only to women and children. At
length the sage addressed the King when he saw him more
composed:--
"A doom of death should not issue from laughing lips. Let thy
servant hope that thou hast granted him this man's life."
"Take the freedom of a thousand captives instead," said Richard;
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