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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: then. But he might in truth have been at my elbow all the time for
all I knew. We had been too absorbed in watching our fate to pay
attention to each other. Nobody had eaten anything that morning,
but the men had been coming constantly to drink at the water-butt.
I ran down to the cabin. I had there, put away in a locker, ten
thousand francs in gold of whose presence on board, so far as I was
aware, not a soul, except Dominic had the slightest inkling. When
I emerged on deck again Dominic had turned about and was peering
from under his cowl at the coast. Cape Creux closed the view
ahead. To the left a wide bay, its waters torn and swept by fierce
squalls, seemed full of smoke. Astern the sky had a menacing look.
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