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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: a loud laugh as I had never heard before. It was a
provoking, mocking peal, with a hair-raising,
screeching over-note of defiance. I stepped back,
utterly confounded.
Instantly there was a stir on the quarter-deck;
murmurs of dismay. A distressed voice cried out
in the dark below us: "Who's that gone crazy,
now?"
Perhaps they thought it was their captain?
Rush is not the word that could be applied to the
utmost speed the poor fellows were up to; but in
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