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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: own day-ghosts. Mr. Travers gave no sign of being aware of his
wife's presence. It was certainly a shock to him. But d'Alcacer
advanced smiling, as if the beach were a drawing. room.
With a very few paddlers the heavy old European-built boat moved
slowly over the water that seemed as pale and blazing as the sky
above. Jorgenson had perched himself in the bow. The other four
white people sat in the stern sheets, the ex-prisoners side by
side in the middle. Lingard spoke suddenly.
"I want you both to understand that the trouble is not over yet.
Nothing is finished. You are out on my bare word."
While Lingard was speaking Mr. Travers turned his face away but
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