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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: was profoundly stirred by these evidences of agonising pain,
hovered round his dear (and dreaded) lieutenant, fussing like an
old hen.
"Dear me, dear me! Is it so bad? I know well what it is. I used
to frighten my poor wife sometimes. Do you get it often like this,
lieutenant?"
Heemskirk shouldered him viciously out of his way, with a short,
insane laugh. But his staggering host took it in good part; a man
beside himself with excruciating toothache is not responsible.
"Go into my room, lieutenant," he suggested urgently. "Throw
yourself on my bed. We will get something to ease you in a
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