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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: this time."
Ultimately some of the minor spars did go - nothing important:
spanker-booms and such-like - because at times the frightful
impetus of her rolling would part a fourfold tackle of new three-
inch Manilla line as if it were weaker than pack-thread.
It was only poetic justice that the chief mate who had made a
mistake - perhaps a half-excusable one - about the distribution of
his ship's cargo should pay the penalty. A piece of one of the
minor spars that did carry away flew against the chief mate's back,
and sent him sliding on his face for quite a considerable distance
along the main deck. Thereupon followed various and unpleasant
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