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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad: that should he let it dwindle to four-fifty or even four-
eighty, all the efficiency would be gone out of the money,
as though there were some magic power in the round
figure. But what sort of work?
Confronted by that haunting question as by an uneasy
ghost, for whom he had no exorcising formula, Captain
Whalley stopped short on the apex of a small bridge
spanning steeply the bed of a canalized creek with
granite shores. Moored between the square blocks a sea-
going Malay prau floated half hidden under the arch
of masonry, with her spars lowered down, without a sound
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