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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: Freya was sorry for her father, too. She restrained herself for
his sake, and as everything she did she did it simply,
unaffectedly, and even good humouredly. No small effort that,
because in Heemskirk's attentions there was an insolent touch of
scorn, hard to put up with. Dutchmen of that sort are over-bearing
to their inferiors, and that officer of the king looked upon old
Nelson and Freya as quite beneath him in every way.
I can't say I felt sorry for Freya. She was not the sort of girl
to take anything tragically. One could feel for her and sympathise
with her difficulty, but she seemed equal to any situation. It was
rather admiration she extorted by her competent serenity. It was
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