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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: Pandemonium, it appeared to young Mrs. Newall, who was here on
Monday and half-choked with guano; but it suits the likes o' me.
'S. S. ELBA, River Mersey: May 17.
'We are delayed in the river by some of the ship's papers not being
ready. Such a scene at the dock gates. Not a sailor will join
till the last moment; and then, just as the ship forges ahead
through the narrow pass, beds and baggage fly on board, the men
half tipsy clutch at the rigging, the captain swears, the women
scream and sob, the crowd cheer and laugh, while one or two pretty
little girls stand still and cry outright, regardless of all eyes.
'These two days of comparative peace have quite set me on my legs
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