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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: scene, though he must own that the present rejoicing was, on
his part, mingled with occasional reflections upon the
responsibility of his situation, which extended to the safety
of all who should be engaged in this perilous work. With such
sensations he retired to his cabin; but as the artificers were
rather inclined to move about the deck than to remain in their
confined berths below, his repose was transient, and the
vessel being small every motion was necessarily heard. Some
who were musically inclined occasionally sung; but he listened
with peculiar pleasure to the sailor at the helm, who hummed
over Dibdin's characteristic air:-
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