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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: Mr. Jacobus's office."
The boy gazed at me with a pained expression - and somehow so
familiar! A voice within growled offensively:
"Come in, come in, since you are there. . . . I didn't know."
I crossed the outer room as one approaches the den of some unknown
wild beast; with intrepidity but in some excitement. Only no wild
beast that ever lived would rouse one's indignation; the power to
do that belongs to the odiousness of the human brute. And I was
very indignant, which did not prevent me from being at once struck
by the extraordinary resemblance of the two brothers.
This one was dark instead of being fair like the other; but he was
'Twixt Land & Sea | 
