Who is "He"? …..He divined with three tortoises, and they all indicated good fortune. He then open the lock and looked at the wr
iting: it too indicated good fortune. He said, “The configuration shows that the king will not suffer harm, and that I, the small child, have obtained a renewed mandate from the three kings. It is the long range that must be considered, and so I await my fate. They will take care of our king.” He returned and put the scribe’s record in a mental bound box. By the next day the king had improved.
As the text states, the person in question starts talking after the divinations. He starts by acknowledging the existence of a king that seems to be sick (the king will not suffer harm + the king had improved). So the person is not the king.
Then he states "I, the small child, have obtained a renewed mandate from the three kings. It is the long range that must be considered, and so I await my fate". Therefore, it is possible to inferr that the person talking is the small child.
The maritime effect is the moderating influence that the ocean has on the climate of a region. In the case of the easternmost states in the USA, the proximity to the ocean and the more moderate maritime air masses usually prevents the most frigid Arctic cold from parking over the region for too long.
The First and Second Estates opposed to change because they were wealthy and had to pay little taxes because of the Third Estate. They had privileges, while the third estate did all the work.
