Please paraphrase a sentence from "Lord of the Flies"
In Lord of the Flies, there is a paragraph:
This toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch. Jack started to
protest but the clamor changed from the general wish for a chief to an
election by acclaim of Ralph himself. None of the boys could have found
good reason for this; what intelligence had been shown was traceable to
Piggy while the most obvious leader was Jack. But there was a stillness
about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and
attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was
the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the
platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart.
I just can't understand the last sentence:
The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform
with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart.
Could anyone please paraphrase or interpret that sentence for me?
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