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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: Auchentroon and Kilclarty) might have recognised in that
tall-masted ship, the transformed and rechristened Dream; and
the Lloyd's surveyor, had the services of such a one been called
in requisition, must have found abundant subject of remark.
For time, during her three years' inaction, had eaten deep into
the Dream and her fittings; she had sold in consequence a
shade above her value as old junk; and the three adventurers
had scarce been able to afford even the most vital repairs. The
rigging, indeed, had been partly renewed, and the rest set up;
all Grant Sanderson's old canvas had been patched together
into one decently serviceable suit of sails; Grant Sanderson's
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