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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: men high up in the tree were heard reporting the thinning of the
fog. This caused a stir to run along the four sides of the
stockade.
Lingard felt the draught of air in his face, the motionless mist
began to drive over the palisades and, suddenly, the lagoon came
into view with a great blinding glitter of its wrinkled surface
and the faint sound of its wash rising all along the shore. A
multitude of hands went up to shade the eager eyes, and
exclamations of wonder burst out from many men at the sight of a
crowd of canoes of various sizes and kinds lying close together
with the effect as of an enormous raft, a little way off the side
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