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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: "Would you guess what was the next thing I did? Directly I got
over the frontier I wrote from Bayonne asking the old man to send
me out my sister here. I said it was for the service of the King.
You see, I had thought suddenly of that house of mine in which you
once spent the night talking with Mr. Mills and Don Juan Blunt. I
thought it would do extremely well for Carlist officers coming this
way on leave or on a mission. In hotels they might have been
molested, but I knew that I could get protection for my house.
Just a word from the ministry in Paris to the Prefect. But I
wanted a woman to manage it for me. And where was I to find a
trustworthy woman? How was I to know one when I saw her? I don't
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