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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: of his eyebrows drawn together by a slight frown.
When I left him there to go back to my room the steward
was finishing dusting. I sent for the mate and engaged him
in some insignificant conversation. It was, as it were,
trifling with the terrific character of his whiskers; but my object
was to give him an opportunity for a good look at my cabin.
And then I could at last shut, with a clear conscience, the door
of my stateroom and get my double back into the recessed part.
There was nothing else for it. He had to sit still on a small
folding stool, half smothered by the heavy coats hanging there.
We listened to the steward going into the bathroom out of
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