He concluded that the hope that his love awaits him at the and of his voyage. So the answer is letter D. It is poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in 1889. It uses metaphors to compare death and words such as "sandbars" to relate it to the tiber of life.
The banker had negative feelings towards the jurist. In the story, the jurist did him some not so good things. We would expect that the wager was done out of hatred for the jurist. The banker wanted to take revenge aginst the jurist.