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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
"Power of the press," whispered Condy to Travis as the two gained
the deck.
A second sailor directed them to the mate, whom they found in the
chart-room, engaged, singularly enough, in trimming the leaves of
a scraggly geranium.
Condy explained his mission with flattering allusions to the
whaleback and the novelty of the construction. The mate--an old
man with a patriarchal beard--softened at once, asked them into
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