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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: since, as if exercising a privilege or performing a duty, the
three paced there for an hour backward and forward lost in dusky
immensity, threading at the edge of water the belt of damp sand,
smooth, level, elastic to the touch like living flesh and
sweating a little under the pressure of their feet.
This time d'Alcacer alone followed Mr. Travers. Mrs. Travers
heard them get into the yacht's smallest boat, and the
night-watchman, tugging at a pair of sculls, pulled them off to
the nearest point. Then the man returned. He came up the ladder
and she heard him say to someone on deck:
"Orders to go back in an hour."
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