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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: resembling a mandarin in a picture-book, with goggles and thin
drooping moustaches, and as dignified as only a Celestial knows how
to be.
"The best of Chinamen as employers is that they have such
gentlemanly instincts. Once they become convinced that you are a
straight man, they give you their unbounded confidence. You simply
can't do wrong, then. And they are pretty quick judges of
character, too. Davidson's Chinaman was the first to find out his
worth, on some theoretical principle. One day in his counting-
house, before several white men he was heard to declare: 'Captain
Davidson is a good man.' And that settled it. After that you
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