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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: "Mr. Burns!" I cried.
He nodded grotesquely over his raised legs, like
two broomsticks in the pyjamas, with enormous
bare feet at the end.
"Why not? The stuff is pretty expensive in this
part of the world, and they were very short of it in
Tonkin. And what did he care? You have not
known him. I have, and I have defied him. He
feared neither God, nor devil, nor man, nor wind,
nor sea, nor his own conscience. And I believe he
hated everybody and everything. But I think he
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