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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: dancing was going on.
"Suppose you get your dose to-morrow, Captain," some one called
out, "what then?"
"Why, if I do," said Blackbeard, "I get it, and that's all there
is of it."
"Your wife'll be a rich widdy then, won't she?" cried one of the
men; and there was a burst of laughter.
"Why," said the New York captain,--"why, has a--a bloody p-pirate
like you a wife then--a--like any honest man?"
"She'll be no richer than she is now," said Blackbeard.
"She knows where you've hid your money, anyways. Don't she,
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