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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: mumbled something about "beastly habits anyhow" - and left the
store abruptly.
CHAPTER IV
My little passage with Jacobus the merchant became known generally.
One or two of my acquaintances made distant allusions to it.
Perhaps the mulatto boy had talked. I must confess that people
appeared rather scandalised, but not with Jacobus's brutality. A
man I knew remonstrated with me for my hastiness.
I gave him the whole story of my visit, not forgetting the tell-
tale resemblance of the wretched mulatto boy to his tormentor. He
was not surprised. No doubt, no doubt. What of that? In a jovial
'Twixt Land & Sea | 
