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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: too, who has loved--which she could not hear from men. At least I
could mend and wash for you. I suppose it is as easy to play the
good housewife afloat as on shore? Come, now!"
Amyas looked from one to the other.
"God only knows which of the two is less fit to go. Mother!
mother! you know not what you ask. Frank! Frank! I do not want you
with me. This is a sterner matter than either of you fancy it to
be; one that must be worked out, not with kind words, but with
sharp shot and cold steel."
"How?" cried both together, aghast.
"I must pay my men, and pay my fellow-adventurers; and I must pay
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