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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: There was a loud splash of men jumping overboard, and then,
almost instantly, the cry of "Quarter! quarter!" The lieutenant
ran to the edge of the vessel. It was as he had thought: the
grappling irons of the pirate sloop had parted, and it had
drifted away. The few pirates who had been left aboard of the
schooner had jumped overboard and were now holding up their
hands. "Quarter!" they cried. "Don't shoot!--quarter!" And the
fight was over.
The lieutenant looked down at his hand, and then he saw, for the
first time, that there was a great cutlass gash across the back
of it, and that his arm and shirt sleeve were wet with blood. He
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