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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: smiling grimace. Then she became anxious. The absurdities of
three men were forcing this anxiety upon her: Jasper's
impetuosity, her father's fears, Heemskirk's infatuation. She was
very tender to the first two, and she made up her mind to display
all her feminine diplomacy. All this, she said to herself, will be
over and done with before very long now.
Heemskirk on the verandah, lolling in a chair, his legs extended
and his white cap reposing on his stomach, was lashing himself into
a fury of an atrocious character altogether incomprehensible to a
girl like Freya. His chin was resting on his chest, his eyes gazed
stonily at his shoes. Freya examined him from behind the curtain.
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