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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: beginning to end. But this supposition seemed almost incredible.
Perhaps that impenetrable girl had heard him come in and had got
away in time.
He stepped on to the verandah in his usual manner, heavy-eyed, with
glued lips. I marvelled at the girl's resemblance to this man.
Those long, Egyptian eyes, that low forehead of a stupid goddess,
she had found in the sawdust of the circus; but all the rest of the
face, the design and the modelling, the rounded chin, the very lips
- all that was Jacobus, fined down, more finished, more expressive.
His thick hand fell on and grasped with force the back of a light
chair (there were several standing about) and I perceived the
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