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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: woman? The only woman in Jorgenson's life had come in by way of
exchange for a lot of cotton stuffs and several brass guns. This
fact could not but affect Jorgenson's judgment since obviously in
this case such a transaction was impossible. Therefore the case
was not serious. It didn't exist. What did exist was Lingard's
relation to the Wajo exiles, a great and warlike adventure such
as no rover in those seas had ever attempted.
That Tengga was much more ready to negotiate than to fight, the
old adventurer had not the slightest doubt. How Lingard would
deal with him was not a concern of Jorgenson's. That would be
easy enough. Nothing prevented Lingard from going to see Tengga
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