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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: of fresh mess in the dark and with nothing but light airs."
"I don't deny it," answered Wicks, and stood awhile as if in
thought. "But what I can't make out," he began again, with
agitation, "what I can't make out is what you're made of! To
stay in this place is beyond me. There's the bloody sun going
down--and to stay here is beyond me!"
The others looked upon him with horrified surprise. This fall
of their chief pillar--this irrational passion in the practical man,
suddenly barred out of his true sphere, the sphere of action--
shocked and daunted them. But it gave to another and unseen
hearer the chance for which he had been waiting. Mac, on the
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