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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: help yourself."
This took her breath away. "But I must tell you. There is
something in my coming which is not clear to me."
"You can tell me nothing that I don't know already," he said in a
pleading tone. "Say nothing. Sit still. Time enough to-morrow.
To-morrow! The night is drawing to an end and I care for nothing
in the world but you. Let me be. Give me the rest that is in
you."
She had never heard such accents on his lips and she felt for him
a great and tender pity. Why not humour this mood in which he
wanted to preserve the moments that would never come to him again
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