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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: few haphazard tins or a bottle of his own brown sherry. But
Hemstead grumbled from habit, Tommy revolted only for the
moment, and there was underneath a real and general
acquiescence in these hardships. For besides onions and
potatoes, the Currency Lass may be said to have gone to sea
without stores. She carried two thousand pounds' worth of
assorted trade, advanced on credit, their whole hope and
fortune. It was upon this that they subsisted--mice in their own
granary. They dined upon their future profits; and every scanty
meal was so much in the savings bank.
Republican as were their manners, there was no practical, at
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