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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: you have carried me away?" she added in a tender tone.
He murmured an endearing word, and she continued:
"I've promised you - I've said I would come - and I shall come of
my own free will. You shall wait for me on board. I shall get up
the side - by myself, and walk up to you on the deck and say:
'Here I am, kid.' And then - and then I shall be carried off. But
it will be no man who will carry me off - it will be the brig, your
brig - our brig. . . . I love the beauty!"
She heard an inarticulate sound, something like a moan wrung out by
pain or delight, and glided away. There was that other man on the
other verandah, that dark, surly Dutchman who could make trouble
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