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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: turn to and SMELL it?" he cried.
Mac, who had no part nor lot in the bills, the forty pounds of
gold, or the two hundredweight of silver, heard this with
impatience, and fell into a bitter, choking laughter. "You'll
see!" he said harshly. "You'll be glad to feed them bills into the
fire before you're through with ut!" And he turned, passed by
himself out of the ring of the firelight, and stood gazing
seaward.
His speech and his departure extinguished instantly those
sparks of better humour kindled by the dinner and the chest.
The group fell again to an ill-favoured silence, and Hemstead
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