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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: to be. Here he is; here he shall bide."
"Admitting that you have been paid in a proportion," said the
other, "I will crave leave humbly to say that I have not. Paid I
am, and none too much, to be the second officer of this old tub,
and you ken very well if I do my best to earn it. But I was paid
for nothing more."
"If ye could hold back your hand from the tin-pan, Mr. Riach, I
would have no complaint to make of ye," returned the skipper;
"and instead of asking riddles, I make bold to say that ye would
keep your breath to cool your porridge. We'll be required on
deck," he added, in a sharper note, and set one foot upon the
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