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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: have expected such a things . . . After twenty years too!
Nobody could have guessed from his tone that the woman was made of
wood; his trembling voice, his agitated manner gave to his
lamentations a ludicrously scandalous flavour. . . . Disappeared at
night - a clear fine night with just a slight swell - in the gulf
of Bengal. Went off without a splash; no one in the ship could
tell why, how, at what hour - after twenty years last October. . .
. Did I ever hear! . . .
I assured him sympathetically that I had never heard - and he
became very doleful. This meant no good he was sure. There was
something in it which looked like a warning. But when I remarked
'Twixt Land & Sea | 
