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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: The sky was overcast I discovered all the men were in a knot
forward, staring at the faint quivering luminosity that had
spread over the heaps of quap, a phosphorescence such as one sees
at times on rotting wood. And about the beach east and west
there were patches and streaks of something like diluted
moonshine....
In the small hours I was still awake and turning over scheme
after scheme in my mind whereby I might circumvent the captain's
opposition. I meant to get that quap aboard if I had to kill
some one to do it. Never in my life had I been so thwarted!
After this intolerable voyage! There came a rap at my cabin door
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