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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: demurely. . . That fellow, when he had the drink he wanted - he
wasn't a drunkard - would put on this sort of sly, modest air. . .
But since the captain committed suicide, he says, I have been
sitting here thinking it out. All sorts of things happen.
Conspiracy to lose the ship - attempted murder - and this suicide.
For if it was not suicide, Mr. Cloete, then I know of a victim of
the most cruel, cold-blooded attempt at murder; somebody who has
suffered a thousand deaths. And that makes the thousand pounds of
which we spoke once a quite insignificant sum. Look how very
convenient this suicide is. . .
"He looks up at Cloete then, who smiles at him and comes quite
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