|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: I understood what he meant. I knew that those young people had
settled already on a runaway match without official preliminaries.
This was really a logical decision. Old Nelson (or Nielsen) would
never have agreed to give up Freya peaceably to this compromising
Jasper. Heavens! What would the Dutch authorities say to such a
match! It sounds too ridiculous for words. But there's nothing in
the world more selfishly hard than a timorous man in a fright about
his "little estate," as old Nelson used to call it in apologetic
accents. A heart permeated by a particular sort of funk is proof
against sense, feeling, and ridicule. It's a flint.
Jasper would have made his request all the same and then taken his
'Twixt Land & Sea |
