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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: doubt before that stern and enquiring gaze. "Aha!" thought
Carter. "This has startled him"; and feeling that his shyness had
departed he pursued his advantage. "For the fact of the matter
is, sir, that, whatever happens, unless I am to be your man you
will have no officer. I had better tell you at once that I have
bundled that respectable, crazy, fat Shaw out of the ship. He was
upsetting all hands. Yesterday I told him to go and get his
dunnage together because I was going to send him aboard the
yacht. He couldn't have made more uproar about it if I had
proposed to chuck him overboard. I warned him that if he didn't
go quietly I would have him tied up like a sheep ready for
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