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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: He was not concerned about that. He didn't mind it in the least.
The fellow was just company for her; he amused the girl; nothing
more.
When the perspicacious old chap left off mumbling, all was still in
the house. The other two were amusing themselves very quietly, and
no doubt very heartily. What more absorbing and less noisy
amusement could they have found than to plan their future? Side by
side on the verandah they must have been looking at the brig, the
third party in that fascinating game. Without her there would have
been no future. She was the fortune and the home, and the great
free world for them. Who was it that likened a ship to a prison?
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