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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: veil and gloves, and quietly she took in the room and its three
occupants.
Condy and Blix glued their eyes upon their coffee cups like guilty
conspirators; but a crash of falling crockery called their
attention to the captain's table.
Captain Jack was in a tremor. Hitherto he had acted the role of a
sane and sensible gentleman of middle age, master of himself and
of the situation. The entrance of K. D. B. had evidently reduced
him to a semi-idiotic condition. He enlarged himself; he eased
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