"While I had been no more than an interested observer, quietly awaiting the course of justice, and conscious of the strength derived from truth and right on my side, their commissioners, with such influences as their indomitable assurance could command, had been working very had to get the present rule in Hawaii out of its political and financial difficulties, by passing over to the United States a country whose hospitality they have betrayed, a land which they do not and never can own."
This sentence here, found in the chapter My Literary Occupation, I would say to be favorite because it is mocking the United States saying how they can never own us, and she chooses words such as justice and truth. Words that we would coincide with themes of the United States. So I like how the Queen is standing up to the US despite its overwhelming strength and power. It is almost like a role reversal, going back to the colonies and Britain, and how the US is trying to annex Hawaii in this situation.
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