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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: closely. Only here and there a small dingy cafe for sailors cast
a yellow gleam on the bluish sheen of the flagstones. Passing
by, one heard a deep murmur of voices inside--nothing more. How
quiet everything was at the end of the quays on the last night on
which I went out for a service cruise as a guest of the
Marseilles pilots! Not a footstep, except my own, not a sigh,
not a whispering echo of the usual revelry going on in the narrow
unspeakable lanes of the Old Town reached my ear--and suddenly,
with a terrific jingling rattle of iron and glass, the omnibus of
the Jolliette on its last journey swung round the corner of the
dead wall which faces across the paved road the characteristic
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