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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: thereafter was to hand a note to the clerk asking that it be
dispatched immediately. The note was addressed to Anthony
Harding, Esq., On Board Yacht Lotus.
Count de Cadenet and his servant repaired immediately to
the count's rooms, there to await an answer to the note. Henri
Theriere, the second officer of the Halfmoon, in frock coat
and silk hat looked every inch a nobleman and a gentleman.
What his past had been only he knew, but his polished
manners, his knowledge of navigation and seamanship, and
his leaning toward the ways of the martinet in his dealings
with the men beneath him had led Skipper Simms to assume
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