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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: stood that very well.
When I returned on deck everything was ready
for the removal of the men. It was the last ordeal
of that episode which had been maturing and tem-
pering my character--though I did not know it.
It was awful. They passed under my eyes one
after another--each of them an embodied reproach
of the bitterest kind, till I felt a sort of revolt wake
up in me. Poor Frenchy had gone suddenly under.
He was carried past me insensible, his comic
face horribly flushed and as if swollen, breathing
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