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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: couches."
[21] Lit. "a searcher"; "an inquisitor." Cf. Shakesp. "Rom. and Jul."
V. ii. 8.
[22] Lit. "not the reverse of easy to unpack, so as to cause a waste
of time and waiting."
Then the pilot's mate[23]--"the look-out man at the prow," to give him
his proper title--was, I found, so well acquainted with the place for
everything that, even off the ship,[24] he could tell you where each
set of things was laid and how many there were of each, just as well
as any one who knows his alphabet[25] could tell you how many letters
there are in Socrates and the order in which they stand.
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