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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: at him thoughtfully, with his fingers over his lips. Here he was,
the favoured vagabond, the only man to whom that infernal girl was
likely to tell the story. But he would not find it funny. The
story how Lieutenant Heemskirk - No, he would not laugh at it. He
looked as though he would never laugh at anything in his life.
Suddenly Jasper looked up. His eyes, without any other expression
but bewilderment, met those of Heemskirk, observant and sombre.
"Gone on the reef!" he said, in a low, astounded tone. "On-the-
reef!" he repeated still lower, and as if attending inwardly to the
birth of some awful and amazing sensation.
"On the very top of high-water, spring tides," Heemskirk struck in,
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