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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: She continued to look at him; her face had stiffened into a
severe mask; she managed to say distinctly:
"I suppose you have been asking yourself that question for some
time, Captain Jorgenson?"
"No. I am asking you now."
His face disclosed nothing to Mrs. Travers' bold and weary eyes.
"What could you do over there?" Jorgenson added as merciless, as
irrepressible, and sincere as though he were the embodiment of
that inner voice that speaks in all of us at times and, like
Jorgenson, is offensive and difficult to answer.
"Remember that I am not a shadow but a living woman still,
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