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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: perfect, this man." Afterwards she often asked after him and used
to refer to him in conversation. More than once she said to me:
"One would like to put the care of one's personal safety into the
hands of that man. He looks as if he simply couldn't fail one." I
admitted that this was very true, especially at sea. Dominic
couldn't fail. But at the same time I rather chaffed Rita on her
preoccupation as to personal safety that so often cropped up in her
talk.
"One would think you were a crowned head in a revolutionary world,"
I used to tell her.
"That would be different. One would be standing then for
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