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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: dependent on him, and how they would feel their dependence (if he
failed to turn up) through a long month of anxious waiting.
Prompted by his sensitive humanity, Davidson, in the gathering
dusk, turned the Sissie's head towards the hardly discernible
coast, and navigated her safety through a maze of shallow patches.
But by the time he got to the mouth of the creek the night had
come.
"The narrow waterway lay like a black cutting through the forest.
And as there were always grounded snaggs in the channel which it
would be impossible to make out, Davidson very prudently turned the
Sissie round, and with only enough steam on the boilers to give her
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