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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: that old idiot!"
With the short nervous leaps of a suppressed anger he ran down to
where the SPRITE had just towed the Number One driver into a new
position.
"Lay me alongside the LUCY BELLE," he told Marsh.
But Simpson, in a position of importance at last, was disinclined to
listen. He had worn his blue clothes and brass buttons for a good
many years in charge only of boxes and barrels. Now at a stroke he
found himself commander over tenscore people. Likewise, at fifty
cents a head, he foresaw a good thing as long as high water should
last. He had risen nobly to the occasion; for he had even hoisted
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