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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: and actions and protestations and everything in the world is false--
and I shall jump into the dock. THAT at least won't lie."
Well I don't know. If it had come to that she would have been most
likely fished out, what with her natural want of luck and the good
many people on the quay and on board. And just where the Ferndale
was moored there hung on a wall (I know the berth) a coil of line, a
pole, and a life-buoy kept there on purpose to save people who
tumble into the dock. It's not so easy to get away from life's
betrayals as she thought. However it did not come to that. He
followed her with his quick gliding walk. Mr. Smith! The liberated
convict de Barral passed off the solid earth for the last time,
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