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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: yourself?" he asked me quietly.
"Yes, I think so. But why? Where are you going, Dominic?"
"Anywhere. What a question! Signorino, you are but little more
than a boy to ask such a question of a man having this tale in his
family. AH! TRADITORE! What made me ever own that spawn of a
hungry devil for our own blood! Thief, cheat, coward, liar - other
men can deal with that. But I was his uncle, and so . . . I wish
he had poisoned me - CHAROGNE! But this: that I, a confidential
man and a Corsican, should have to ask your pardon for bringing on
board your vessel, of which I was Padrone, a Cervoni, who has
betrayed you - a traitor! - that is too much. It is too much.
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