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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: depth a couple of feeble lights twinkled; it was impossible to
say whether on the shore or on the edge of the more distant
forest. Overhead the stars were beginning to come out, but faint
yet, as if too remote to be reflected in the lagoon. Only to the
west a setting planet shone through the red fog of the sunset
glow. "It was supposed not to be good for me to have much freedom
of action. So at least I was told. But I have a suspicion that it
was only unpleasing to other people."
"I should have thought," began Lingard, then hesitated and
stopped. It seemed to him inconceivable that everybody should not
have loved to make that woman happy. And he was impressed by the
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