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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: She leaned back again in the chair and let her hands rest quietly
in her lap. "Would you have preferred me to remain outside, in
the yacht, in the near neighbourhood of these wild men who
captured you? Or do you think that they, too, were got up to
carry on a farce?"
"Most decidedly." Mr. Travers raised his head, though of course
not his voice. "You ought to have remained in the yacht amongst
white men, your servants, the sailing-master, the crew whose duty
it was to. . . . Who would have been ready to die for you."
"I wonder why they should have--and why I should have asked them
for that sacrifice. However, I have no doubt they would have
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