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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: and rise in scalding waves about him, higher, higher, drowning
his heart, touching his lips with a feel of molten lead, blotting
out his sight in scorching vapour, closing over his head,
merciless and deadly. When she spoke of the deception as to
Dain's death of which he had been the victim only that day, he
glanced again at her with terrible eyes, and made her falter for
a second, but he turned away directly, and his face suddenly lost
all expression in a stony stare far away over the river. Ah! the
river! His old friend and his old enemy, speaking always with
the same voice as he runs from year to year bringing fortune or
disappointment happiness or pain, upon the same varying but
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