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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: clear, watchful eyes. But the temptation was too great - and I
addressed him impulsively on the subject of that shipwreck.
He turned his big fair face towards me with surprise in his keen
glance, which (as though he had seen through me in an instant and
found nothing objectionable) changed subtly into friendliness. On
the matter of the shipwreck he did not say much. He only told me
that it had not occurred in the Mediterranean, but on the other
side of Southern France - in the Bay of Biscay. "But this is
hardly the place to enter on a story of that kind," he observed,
looking round at the room with a faint smile as attractive as the
rest of his rustic but well-bred personality.
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