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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:
"I hope Heemskirk won't turn up here while the brig's about."
Getting up a scare about Heemskirk now! Heemskirk! . . . Really,
one hadn't the patience -
CHAPTER II
For, pray, who was Heemskirk? You shall see at once how
unreasonable this dread of Heemskirk. . . . Certainly, his nature
was malevolent enough. That was obvious, directly you heard him
laugh. Nothing gives away more a man's secret disposition than the
unguarded ring of his laugh. But, bless my soul! if we were to
start at every evil guffaw like a hare at every sound, we shouldn't
'Twixt Land & Sea |
