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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: word in edge-ways; but heaping him with coarse flattery, and urging
him to drink, till after the cloth was drawn, and the two left
alone, he grew so outrageous that Amyas was forced to take him to
task good-humoredly.
"Now, my dear sir, you have feasted me royally, and better far than
I deserve, but why will you go about to make me drunk twice over,
first with vainglory and then with wine?"
Salterne looked at him a while fixedly, and then, sticking out his
chin--"Because, Captain Leigh, I am a man who has all his life
tried the crooked road first, and found the straight one the safer
after all."
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