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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: "Will you come ashore, O white man; and be the leader of chiefs?"
"I have been that before," said Jorgenson, with great dignity,
"and now all I want is peace. But I won't come ashore amongst
people whose minds are so much troubled, till Rajah Hassim and
his sister return on board this ship and tell me the tale of
their new friendship with Tengga."
His heart was sinking with every minute, the very air was growing
heavier with the sense of oncoming disaster, on that night that
was neither war nor peace and whose only voice was the voice of
Tengga's envoy, insinuating in tone though menacing in words.
"No, that cannot be," said that voice. "But, Tuan, verily Tengga
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