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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: decks were swabbed in the morning and established her in it; he
paced the deck with her at convenient times and seasons. They were
humdrum, but they were constant and cumulative. Cecily took them
with an even breath that perfectly matched. There was hardly
anything, on her part, to note--a little discreet observation of his
comings and goings, eyes scarcely lifted from her book, and later
just a hint of proprietorship, as the evening she came up to me on
deck, our first night in the Indian Ocean. I was lying in my long
chair looking at the thick, low stars and thinking it was a long
time since I had seen John.
'Dearest mamma, out here and nothing over your shoulders! You ARE
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