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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: cases and dressing-bags rescued him from that appalling
abstraction.
"All I can do is to beg you to make yourselves at home . . . with
what patience you may."
This was so obviously the only thing to do that everybody moved on
at once. The professor walked alongside Renouard, behind the two
ladies.
"Rather unexpected - this absence."
"Not exactly," muttered Renouard. "A trip has to be made every
year to engage labour."
"I see . . . And he . . . How vexingly elusive the poor fellow has
Within the Tides | 
