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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: it would be as good as insurance. I know. I've knocked about
amongst reefs myself. Besides, if you weren't so mediaeval, I
could be skipper and save more than the engineer's wages."
He did not reply to her thrust, and she glanced at him. He was
looking out over the water, and in the lantern light she noted the
lines of his face--strong, stern, dogged, the mouth almost chaste
but firmer and thinner-lipped than Tudor's. For the first time she
realized the quality of his strength, the calm and quiet of it, its
simple integrity and reposeful determination. She glanced quickly
at Tudor on the other side of her. It was a handsomer face, one
that was more immediately pleasing. But she did not like the
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