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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: The mate with the terrific whiskers was now putting the ship on the
other tack. In the moment of profound silence which follows upon
the hands going to their stations I heard on the poop his raised
voice: "Hard alee!" and the distant shout of the order repeated on
the maindeck. The sails, in that light breeze, made but a faint
fluttering noise. It ceased. The ship was coming round slowly; I
held my breath in the renewed stillness of expectation; one
wouldn't have thought that there was a single living soul on her
decks. A sudden brisk shout, "Mainsail haul!" broke the spell, and
in the noisy cries and rush overhead of the men running away with
the main-brace we two, down in my cabin, came together in our usual
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