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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: for it. Our courts do let off these fellows too often, on some
miserable excuse or other. But, at any rate, there's an end of the
famous Bonito. I have just heard in the harbour-office that she
must have gone on at the very top of high-water; and she is in
ballast, too. No human power, they think, can move her from where
she is. I only hope it is so. It would be fine to have the
notorious Bonito stuck up there as a warning to others."
Mr. J. Mesman, a colonial-born Dutchman, a kind, paternal old
fellow, with a clean-shaven, quiet, handsome fade, and a head of
fine iron-grey hair curling a little on his collar, did not say a
word in defence of Jasper and the Bonito. He rose from his arm-
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