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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: that on such occasions he was only a private gentleman coming to see
other gentlemen whom he supposed as well born as himself. I fancy that
to the last he believed us to be emissaries of Government, darkly
official persons furthering by our illegal traffic some dark scheme
of high statecraft. Our denials and protestations were unavailing.
He only smiled with discreet politeness and inquired about the
Queen. Every visit began with that inquiry; he was insatiable of
details; he was fascinated by the holder of a sceptre the shadow of
which, stretching from the westward over the earth and over the
seas, passed far beyond his own hand's-breadth of conquered land. He
multiplied questions; he could never know enough of the Monarch of
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