The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: closing up the telescope, she exclaimed: "That is the kind of an
instrument that some foreigners sent as a present to my
grandfather while he was viceroy, but it was larger than this
one."
"And did he use it?" asked my husband.
"No, we did not know what it was for. Besides my grandfather was
too busy with the affairs of the government to try to understand
it."
"And where is it now?" asked Mr. Headland, thinking that the
viceroy might be willing to donate it to the college.
"I do not know," she answered. "The servants thought it was a
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