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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: "'I am not anxious,' protested the good Davidson. 'I simply can't
help myself. There's no one else to go in my place.'
"'Oh! There's no one,' she said, turning away slowly.
"She was so distant with him that evening that Davidson from a
sense of delicacy made up his mind to say good-bye to her at once
and go and sleep on board. He felt very miserable and, strangely
enough, more on his own account than on account of his wife. She
seemed to him much more offended than grieved.
"Three weeks later, having collected a good many cases of old
dollars (they were stowed aft in the lazarette with an iron bar and
a padlock securing the hatch under his cabin-table), yes, with a
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