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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: smashing them to pieces, and then lowered a boat on purpose to pull
out a third, which I had a lot of trouble six months ago to stick
up in the middle of a mudflat for a tide mark. Did you ever hear
of anything more provoking - eh?"
"I wouldn't quarrel with the beggar," I observed casually, yet
disliking that piece of news strongly. "It isn't worth while."
"I quarrel?" cried Jasper. "I don't want to quarrel. I don't want
to hurt a single hair of his ugly head. My dear fellow, when I
think of Freya's twenty-first birthday, all the world's my friend,
Heemskirk included. It's a nasty, spiteful amusement, all the
same."
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