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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: because then I would be suspect to you."
The thought that before long perhaps he would be neither man nor
woman but a lump of cold clay, crossed d'Alcacer's mind, which
was living, alert, and unsubdued by the danger. He had welcomed
the arrival of Mrs. Travers simply because he had been very
lonely in that stockade, Mr. Travers having fallen into a phase
of sulks complicated with shivering fits. Of Lingard d'Alcacer
had seen almost nothing since they had landed, for the Man of
Fate was extremely busy negotiating in the recesses of Belarab's
main hut; and the thought that his life was being a matter of
arduous bargaining was not agreeable to Mr. d'Alcacer. The
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