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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: interested. If he ever manages to put poison in the dishes, I
thought to myself, this is how he will look at us as we sit at our
meal. But I did not, of course, believe for a moment that he would
ever put poison in our food. He ate the same things himself.
Moreover, he had no poison. And I could not imagine a human being
so blinded by cupidity as to sell poison to such an atrocious
creature.
XLIV.
We slipped out to sea quietly at dusk, and all through the night
everything went well. The breeze was gusty; a southerly blow was
making up. It was fair wind for our course. Now and then Dominic
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