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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: detached and in its very silence on the point giving occasion to
think that the writer was not uneasy as to the child's future.
Probably it was that very idea which had set the cousin so readily
in motion. Men had come before out of commercial crashes with
estates in the country and a comfortable income, if not for
themselves then for their wives. And if a wife could be made
comfortable by a little dexterous management then why not a
daughter? Yes. This possibility might have been discussed in the
person's household and judged worth acting upon.
The man actually hinted broadly that such was his belief and in face
of Fyne's guarded replies gave him to understand that he was not the
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