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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: wickedness, and Bostock, in spite of their teeth, got seventy-
five head of volunteer labour on board, of whom not more than
a dozen died of injuries. He had a hand, besides, in the
amiable pleasantry which cost the life of Patteson; and when
the sham bishop landed, prayed, and gave his benediction to
the natives, Bostock, arrayed in a female chemise out of the
traderoom, had stood at his right hand and boomed amens.
This, when he was sure he was among good fellows, was his
favourite yarn. "Two hundred head of labour for a hatful of
amens," he used to name the tale; and its sequel, the death of
the real bishop, struck him as a circumstance of extraordinary
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