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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: danger; an emergency (came it never so sudden) strung him
like a tonic. And yet, upon the other hand, I have known none
so nervous, so oppressed with possibilities, looking upon the
world at large, and the life of a sailor in particular, with so
constant and haggard a consideration of the ugly chances. All
his courage was in blood, not merely cold, but icy with
reasoned apprehension. He would lay our little craft rail under,
and "hang on" in a squall, until I gave myself up for lost, and
the men were rushing to their stations of their own accord.
"There," he would say, "I guess there's not a man on board
would have hung on as long as I did that time; they'll have to
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