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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: Next day a note from Mrs. Harbottle informed me that she had gone to
Bombay for a fortnight. In a postscript she wrote, 'I shall wait
for the Chicheles there, and come back with them.' I remember
reflecting that if she could not induce herself to take a passage to
England in the ship that brought them, it seemed the right thing to
do.
She did come back with them. I met the party at the station. I
knew Somers would meet them, and it seemed to me, so imminent did
disaster loom, that someone else should be there, someone to offer a
covering movement or a flank support wherever it might be most
needed. And among all our smiling faces disaster did come, or the
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