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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: It occurred to me that if old "Bless my soul--you don't say so"
were to put his head up the companion and catch sight of us,
he would think he was seeing double, or imagine himself come
upon a scene of weird witchcraft; the strange captain having
a quiet confabulation by the wheel with his own gray ghost.
I became very much concerned to prevent anything of the sort.
I heard the other's soothing undertone.
"My father's a parson in Norfolk," it said. Evidently he had
forgotten he had told me this important fact before.
Truly a nice little tale.
"You had better slip down into my stateroom now," I said,
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