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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: his teeth like a wolf close to my face - "and she would have had us
like - that."
I saw it all plainly enough now. They had eyes in their heads and
all their wits about them in that craft. We had passed them in the
dark as they jogged on easily towards their ambush with the idea
that we were yet far behind. At daylight, however, sighting a
balancelle ahead under a press of canvas, they had made sail in
chase. But if that was so, then -
Dominic seized my arm.
"Yes, yes! She came out on an information - do you see, it? - on
information. . . . We have been sold - betrayed. Why? How? What
The Mirror of the Sea |
