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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: captain after us, as we departed for the shore.
"There's something gone wrong with the world to-day; it must
have come bottom up!" wailed Pinkerton. "Bellairs, and then
the hotel clerk, and now This Fraud! And what am I to do for a
captain, Loudon, with Longhurst gone home an hour ago, and
the boys all scattered?"
"I know," said I. "Jump in!" And then to the driver: "Do you
know Black Tom's?"
Thither then we rattled; passed through the bar, and found (as I
had hoped) Johnson in the enjoyment of club life. The table
had been thrust upon one side; a South Sea merchant was
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