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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: to our main-chains with the boat-hook did not deign to
lift his head for a glance. I thought people who had
been blown up deserved more attention.
"A little man, dry like a chip and agile like a monkey,
clambered up. It was the mate of the steamer. He
gave one look, and cried, 'O boys--you had better quit.'
"We were silent. He talked apart with the captain
for a time,--seemed to argue with him. Then they went
away together to the steamer.
"When our skipper came back we learned that the
steamer was the Sommerville, Captain Nash, from West
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