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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: under fire in Chinese rivers; but the only thing he cared to talk
of, the only thing of which he was vain, or with which he
thought it possible to interest a stranger, was his career as a
money-lender in the slums of a seaport town.
The afternoon spell told cruelly on the Currency Lasses.
Already exhausted as they were with sleeplessness and
excitement, they did the last hours of this violent employment
on bare nerves; and when Trent was at last satisfied with the
condition of his rigging, expected eagerly the word to put to
sea. But the captain seemed in no hurry. He went and walked
by himself softly, like a man in thought. Presently he hailed
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