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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: limbs, a voice is shrieking in broadest Devon to the master, who is
looking over the side.
"Oh, Robert Drew! Robert Drew! Come down, and take me out of
hell!"
"Who be you, in the name of the Lord!"
"Don't you mind William Prust, that Captain Hawkins left behind in
the Honduras, years and years agone? There's nine of us aboard, if
your shot hasn't put 'em out of their misery. Come down, if you've
a Christian heart, come down!"
Utterly forgetful of all discipline, Drew leaps down hammer in
hand, and the two old comrades rush into each other's arms.
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