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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: "A pretty thing to have to own up to for a Conway boy,"
murmured my double, distinctly.
"You're a Conway boy?"
"I am," he said, as if startled. Then, slowly . . . "Perhaps you too--"
It was so; but being a couple of years older I had left before
he joined. After a quick interchange of dates a silence fell;
and I thought suddenly of my absurd mate with his terrific whiskers
and the "Bless my soul--you don't say so" type of intellect.
My double gave me an inkling of his thoughts by saying:
"My father's a parson in Norfolk. Do you see me before a judge
and jury on that charge? For myself I can't see the necessity.
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