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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: many hundred yards off. His rheumaticky feet, tired with balancing
that squat body for many years upon the decks of small coasters,
and made sore by miles of tramping upon the flagstones of the dock
side, had hurried up in time to avert a ridiculous catastrophe. I
answered him pettishly, I fear, and as if I had known all about it
before.
"All right, all right! can't do everything at once."
He remained near by, muttering to himself till the yards had been
hauled round at my order, and then raised again his foggy, thick
voice:
"None too soon," he observed, with a critical glance up at the
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