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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: being set above the Fates by a tender look in a woman's eyes,
helped him, the first shock over, to go through these experiences
with an amused self-confidence. For what evil could touch the
elect of Freya?
It was now afternoon, the sun being behind the two vessels as they
headed for the harbour. "The beetle's little joke shall soon be
over," thought Jasper, without any great animosity. As a seaman
well acquainted with that part of the world, a casual glance was
enough to tell him what was being done. "Hallo," he thought, "he
is going through Spermonde Passage. We shall be rounding Tamissa
reef presently." And again he returned to the contemplation of his
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