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in Class 12 by kratos

The king of Monaco is a man without a decisive stand. Do you agree with this? Substantiate your answer with reference to ‘Too Dear!’

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by kratos
 
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No, I do not agree with the statement, “The King of Monaco is a man without a decisive stand” because there is enough evidence to prove that he had to act according to the needs of the situation.

The King of Monaco kept changing his mind in dealing with the **** because, every time he took a decision, he faced a problem to ** it. First, the king accepted the judge’ verdict and ordered the **** of the **, but he cancelled it and changed the sentence to ‘imprisonment for life’ because there was neither a guillotine machine nor an ** in his country. Moreover, if he had decided to borrow one from the King of Italy, he would have been forced to levy 2 francs per person as additional tax which he did not like. Secondly, after keeping the **** in prison for one year, he realized that he had to spend 600 francs on the maintenance of the **** until his *****, which would have proved to be again a financial burden to his people.

Therefore, as advised by his council of ministers, he dismissed the guard hoping that the prisoner would run away. But the prisoner refused to run away because he had nowhere to go and he had got out of the habit of working. Once again the king faced a new problem. Then, as suggested by his council of ministers, the king ordered payment of 600 francs a year as pension and got rid of the ****.

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