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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: the tall spars of her stood high and bright in a sunshine like the
flickering of a fire. She proved to be a very roomy, commodious
merchant, but somewhat blunt in the bows, and loaden extraordinary deep
with salt, salted salmon, and fine white linen stockings for the Dutch.
Upon my coming on board, the captain welcomed me - one Sang (out of
Lesmahago, I believe), a very hearty, friendly tarpaulin of a man, but
at the moment in rather of a bustle. There had no other of the
passengers yet appeared, so that I was left to walk about upon the
deck, viewing the prospect and wondering a good deal what these
farewells should be which I was promised.
All Edinburgh and the Pentland Hills glinted above me in a kind of
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