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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: of all the cabins, and stumped in after them. The captain ordered
him to open all the doors, every blessed door; state-rooms,
passages, pantry, fore-cabin--and then sent him away.
"The Ferndale had magnificent accommodation. At the end of a
passage leading from the quarter-deck there was a long saloon, its
sumptuosity slightly tarnished perhaps, but having a grand air of
roominess and comfort. The harbour carpets were down, the swinging
lamps hung, and everything in its place, even to the silver on the
sideboard. Two large stern cabins opened out of it, one on each
side of the rudder casing. These two cabins communicated through a
small bathroom between them, and one was fitted up as the captain's
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