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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: the schooner to heave short on her cable and loose her sails. If
there is any hanging back give them a blank gun, Mr. Carter. I
will have no shilly-shallying. If she doesn't go at the word, by
heavens, I will drive her out. I am still master here--for
another day."
The overwhelming sense of immensity, of disturbing emptiness,
which affects those who walk on the sands in the midst of the
sea, intimidated Mrs. Travers. The world resembled a limitless
flat shadow which was motionless and elusive. Then against the
southern stars she saw a human form that isolated and lone
appeared to her immense: the shape of a giant outlined amongst
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