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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: for Bankok we had been already three months out of
London. We had expected to be a fortnight or so--at
the outside.
"It was January, and the weather was beautiful--the
beautiful sunny winter weather that has more charm
than in the summer-time, because it is unexpected, and
crisp, and you know it won't, it can't, last long. It's
like a windfall, like a godsend, like an unexpected piece
of luck.
"It lasted all down the North Sea, all down Channel;
and it lasted till we were three hundred miles or so to the
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