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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: one who was present remarked to another, as they left the ship,
"This has been a means of grace." Nor did he forget to thank and
compliment the admiral; and I cannot deny myself the pleasure of
transcribing from Kimberley's reply some generous and engaging
words. "My dear captain," he wrote, "your kind note received. You
went out splendidly, and we all felt from our hearts for you, and
our cheers came with sincerity and admiration for the able manner
in which you handled your ship. We could not have been gladder if
it had been one of our ships, for in a time like that I can truly
say with old Admiral Josiah Latnall, 'that blood is thicker than
water.'" One more trait will serve to build up the image of this
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