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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: I don't mean to give you up dead or alive.
"You are quick in taking the point," said Lingard in a dull
voice, while Mrs. Travers, with the sheet of paper gripped in her
hand, looked into his face with anxious eyes. "He has been smart
and no mistake."
"He didn't know," murmured Mrs. Travers.
"No, he didn't know. But could I take everybody into my
confidence?" protested Lingard in the same low tone. "And yet who
else could I trust? It seemed to me that he must have understood
without being told. But he is too young. He may well be proud
according to his lights. He has done that job outside very
The Rescue | 
