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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: were, mystical, quite apart from his anxiety that he should
not be suspected of "countenancing any doings of that sort."
Seven-and-thirty virtuous years at sea, of which over twenty
of immaculate command, and the last fifteen in the Sephora,
seemed to have laid him under some pitiless obligation.
"And you know," he went on, groping shame-facedly amongst his feelings,
"I did not engage that young fellow. His people had some
interest with my owners. I was in a way forced to take him on.
He looked very smart, very gentlemanly, and all that.
But do you know--I never liked him, somehow. I am a plain man.
You see, he wasn't exactly the sort for the chief mate of a ship
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