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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: life and a merry one, and shall not the Lord's people pray for a
short death and a merry one? Let it come as it will to old Yeo.
Hark! there's the captain's voice!"
"Here she is!" thundered Amyas from the deck; and in an instant all
were scrambling up the hatchway as fast as the frantic rolling of
the ship would let them.
Yes. There she was. The cloud had lifted suddenly, and to the
south a ragged bore of blue sky let a long stream of sunshine down
on her tall masts and stately hull, as she lay rolling some four or
five miles to the eastward: but as for land, none was to be seen.
"There she is; and here we are," said Cary; "but where is here? and
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