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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: mistress; yet I think there are not many mistresses we should
continue to woo under similar circumstances. Trowbridge went
ashore with the CULLODEN, and was able to take no part in the
battle of the Nile. "The merits of that ship and her gallant
captain," wrote Nelson to the Admiralty, "are too well known
to benefit by anything I could say. Her misfortune was great
in getting aground, WHILE HER MORE FORTUNATE COMPANIONS WERE
IN THE FULL TIDE OF HAPPINESS." This is a notable expression,
and depicts the whole great-hearted, big-spoken stock of the
English Admirals to a hair. It was to be "in the full tide of
happiness" for Nelson to destroy five thousand five hundred
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