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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: lawsuits against all the rest, and every will had a firm of
lawyers on the quarterdeck as long as your arm. They tell me it
was one of the biggest turns-to that ever was seen, bar
Tichborne; the Lord Chamberlain himself was floored, and so
was the Lord Chancellor; and all that time the Dream lay
rotting up by Glebe Point. Well, it's done now; they've picked
out a widow and a will; tossed up for it, as like as not; and the
Dream's for sale. She'll go cheap; she's had a long turn-to at
rotting."
"What size is she?"
"Well, big enough. We don't want her bigger. A hundred and
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