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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: things at a time: wood-pulp, preserved-fruit trade, and so on.
And Captain Harry let him have his share to work with. . . I am
provided for in my ship, he says. . . But by-and-by Mundy and
Rogers begin to sell out to foreigners all their ships - go into
steam right away. Captain Harry gets very upset - lose command,
part with the ship he was fond of - very wretched. Just then, so
it happened, the brothers came in for some money - an old woman
died or something. Quite a tidy bit. Then young George says:
There's enough between us two to buy the Sagamore with. . . But
you'll need more money for your business, cries Captain Harry - and
the other laughs at him: My business is going on all right. Why,
 Within the Tides |