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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: the inhabited world; three long years have I passed in the depth of the
sea, the only place where I have found liberty! Who then can have betrayed
my secret?"
"A man who was bound to you by no tie, Captain Nemo, and who,
consequently, cannot be accused of treachery."
"The Frenchman who was cast on board my vessel by chance sixteen years
since?"
"The same."
"He and his two companions did not then perish in the maelstrom, in the
midst of which the 'Nautilus' was struggling?"
"They escaped, and a book has appeared under the title of 'Twenty
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