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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: everyone was more or less hurt. You should have seen
them! Some were in rags, with black faces, like coal-
heavers, like sweeps, and had bullet heads that seemed
closely cropped, but were in fact singed to the skin.
Others, of the watch below, awakened by being shot out
from their collapsing bunks, shivered incessantly, and
kept on groaning even as we went about our work. But
they all worked. That crew of Liverpool hard cases had
in them the right stuff. It's my experience they always
have. It is the sea that gives it--the vastness, the lone-
liness surrounding their dark stolid souls. Ah! Well!
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