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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: moustaches, curled every morning with hot tongs by the barber at
the corner of the quay, seemed to hide a perpetual smile. But
nobody, I believe, had ever seen the true shape of his lips. From
the slow, imperturbable gravity of that broad-chested man you would
think he had never smiled in his life. In his eyes lurked a look
of perfectly remorseless irony, as though he had been provided with
an extremely experienced soul; and the slightest distension of his
nostrils would give to his bronzed face a look of extraordinary
boldness. This was the only play of feature of which he seemed
capable, being a Southerner of a concentrated, deliberate type.
His ebony hair curled slightly on the temples. He may have been
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