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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "There are safe there?" asked Philip, eagerly.
"Only place where they would be safe, then," said the
spokesman.
"Unless the light-ship parts," said an old fellow.
"Parts!" said the other. "Sixty fathom of two-inch chain, and
old Joe talks about parting."
"Foolish, of course," said Philip; "but it's a dangerous
shore."
"That's so," was the answer. "Never saw so many lines of reef
show outside, neither."
"There's an old saying on this shore," said Joe:--
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