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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: him in silence. Two billiard-players, with cues in their hands,
had come to the door of the billiard-room and stared, too.
On Gomez coming up to him, Jasper raised one hand to point at his
own throat. Gomez noted the somewhat soiled state of his white
clothes, then took one look at his face, and fled away to order the
drink for which Jasper seemed to be asking.
Where he wanted to go - or what purpose - where he, perhaps, only
imagined himself to be going, when a sudden impulse or the sight of
a familiar place had made him turn into Orange House - it is
impossible to say. He was steadying himself lightly with the tips
of his fingers on the little table. There were on that verandah
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