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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: Nearer hand, and just within, a big white boat came skimming
to the stroke of many oars, her ensign blowing at the stern.
"One word more," said Wicks, after he had taken in the scene.
"Mac, you've been in China ports? All right; then you can
speak for yourself. The rest of you I kept on board all the time
we were in Hongkong, hoping you would desert; but you fooled
me and stuck to the brig. That'll make your lying come easier."
The boat was now close at hand; a boy in the stern sheets was
the only officer, and a poor one plainly, for the men were
talking as they pulled.
"Thank God, they've only sent a kind of a middy!" ejaculated
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