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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: necessary for Mr. Smith to seek rural retreat I don't know. Perhaps
to some extent it was a judicious arrangement. There were some
obligations incumbent on the liberated de Barral (in connection with
reporting himself to the police I imagine) which Mr. Smith was not
anxious to perform. De Barral had to vanish; the theory was that de
Barral had vanished, and it had to be upheld. Poor Flora liked the
country, even if the spot had nothing more to recommend it than its
retired character.
Now and then Captain Anthony ran down; but as the station was a real
wayside one, with no early morning trains up, he could never stay
for more than the afternoon. It appeared that he must sleep in town
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