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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: "When he gets back to the top of the deck-house he says to Captain
Harry, who asks him if he got the things, that he is very sorry.
There was something wrong with the door. Couldn't open it. And to
tell you the truth, says he, I didn't like to stop any longer in
that cabin. There are noises there as if the ship were going to
pieces. . . Captain Harry thinks: Nervous; can't be anything wrong
with the door. But he says: Thanks - never mind, never mind. . .
All hands looking out now for the life-boat. Everybody thinking of
himself rather. Cloete asks himself, will they miss him? But the
fact is that Mr. Stafford had made such poor show at sea that after
the ship struck nobody ever paid any attention to him. Nobody
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