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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: and had died from too much calm at sea, he asked me with a dental,
shark-like smile - if sharks had false teeth - whether I had yet
made my little arrangements for the ship's stay in port.
"Yes, with Jacobus," I answered carelessly. "I understand he's the
brother of Mr. Ernest Jacobus to whom I have an introduction from
my owners."
I was not sorry to let him know I was not altogether helpless in
the hands of his firm. He screwed his thin lips dubiously.
"Why," I cried, "isn't he the brother?"
"Oh, yes. . . . They haven't spoken to each other for eighteen
years," he added impressively after a pause.
'Twixt Land & Sea | 
