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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: too careful."
Cleggett returned to the vessel. Miss Pringle the elder was
leaving it. Miss Henrietta Pringle was following. Cleggett
gathered that the niece left reluctantly, and under the coercion
of the aunt.
Miss Pringle the elder was about to join the Rev. Mr. Calthrop in
the trench. Morality, as well as misery, loves company. But Mr.
Calthrop saw the Misses Pringle coming. He swiftly rose, passed
them by with his face averted, and went aboard the Annabel Lee.
It was evident that he believed that his fatal gift of
fascination had attracted these ladies towards him in spite of
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