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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: in that light breeze, made but a faint fluttering noise.
It ceased. The ship was coming round slowly: I held my breath
in the renewed stillness of expectation; one wouldn't have
thought that there was a single living soul on her decks.
A sudden brisk shout, "Mainsail haul!" broke the spell,
and in the noisy cries and rush overhead of the men running away
with the main brace we two, down in my cabin, came together
in our usual position by the bed place.
He did not wait for my question. "I heard him fumbling here and just
managed to squat myself down in the bath," he whispered to me.
"The fellow only opened the door and put his arm in to hang the coat up.
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