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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: gown, with satchel and slate in hand, watching wistfully the
shipping and the sailors, till, just after he had passed the bottom
of the High Street, he came opposite to one of the many taverns
which looked out upon the river. In the open bay window sat
merchants and gentlemen, discoursing over their afternoon's draught
of sack; and outside the door was gathered a group of sailors,
listening earnestly to some one who stood in the midst. The boy,
all alive for any sea-news, must needs go up to them, and take his
place among the sailor-lads who were peeping and whispering under
the elbows of the men; and so came in for the following speech,
delivered in a loud bold voice, with a strong Devonshire accent,
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