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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: friend, I'm deeply grateful to you."
Renouard's set lips moved.
"Why are you grateful to me?"
"Ah! Why? In the first place you might have made us miss the next
boat, mightn't you? . . . I don't thank you for your hospitality.
You can't be angry with me for saying that I am truly thankful to
escape from it. But I am grateful to you for what you have done,
and - for being what you are."
It was difficult to define the flavour of that speech, but Renouard
received it with an austerely equivocal smile. The professor
stepping into the boat opened his parasol and sat down in the
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