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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: like you very well, though you are slow and a muddler; but I want
you to understand, once and for all, that I did not come to the
Solomons to get married. That is an affliction I could have
accumulated at home, without sailing ten thousand miles after it.
I have my own way to make in the world, and I came to the Solomons
to do it. Getting married is not making MY way in the world. It
may do for some women, but not for me, thank you. When I sit down
to talk over the freight on copra, I don't care to have proposals
of marriage sandwiched in. Besides--besides--"
Her voice broke for the moment, and when she went on there was a
note of appeal in it that well-nigh convicted him to himself of
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