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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: the torch blazed and you stepped ashore. I thought I was
dreaming. But what could I do? I felt I must rush to you but I
dared not. That clump of palms is full of men. So are the houses
you saw that time you came ashore with me. Full of men. Armed
men. A trigger is soon pulled and when once shooting begins. . .
. And you walking in the open with that light above your head! I
didn't dare. You were safer alone. I had the strength to hold
myself in and watch you come up from the shore. No! No man that
ever lived had seen such a sight. What did you come for?"
"Didn't you expect somebody? I don't mean me, I mean a
messenger?"
The Rescue | 
