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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: "Senor! Bernardino had taken notice of him. What more do you
want? And listen - men have disappeared on this road - on a
certain portion of this road, when Bernardino kept a MESON, an inn,
and I, his brother-in-law, had coaches and mules for hire. Now
there are no travellers, no coaches. The French have ruined me.
Bernardino has retired here for reasons of his own after my sister
died. They were three to torment the life out of her, he and
Erminia and Lucilla, two aunts of his - all affiliated to the
devil. And now he has robbed me of my last mule. You are an armed
man. Demand the MACHO from him, with a pistol to his head, senor -
it is not his, I tell you - and ride after your man who is so
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