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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: bo'sun and the carpenter came the voyage after. Steady men. Still
here. No good man need ever have thought of leaving the Ferndale
unless he were a fool. Some good men are fools. Don't know when
they are well off. I mean the best of good men; men that you would
do anything for. They go on for years, then all of a sudden--"
Our young friend listened to the mate with a queer sense of
discomfort growing on him. For it was as though Mr. Franklin were
thinking aloud, and putting him into the delicate position of an
unwilling eavesdropper. But there was in the mess-room another
listener. It was the steward, who had come in carrying a tin
coffee-pot with a long handle, and stood quietly by: a man with a
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