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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: . . And Stafford faces him out - both holding on to the cabin
table: No, damn you, you are only a dirty vagabond; but I can
scare the other, the chap in the black coat. . .
"Meaning George Dunbar. Cloete's brain reels at the thought. He
doesn't imagine the fellow can do any real harm, but he knows what
George is; give the show away; upset the whole business he had set
his heart on. He says nothing; he hears the other, what with the
funk and strain and excitement, panting like a dog - and then a
snarl. . . A thousand down, twenty-four hours after we get ashore;
day after to-morrow. That's my last word, Mr. Cloete. . . A
thousand pounds, day after to-morrow, says Cloete. Oh yes. And
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