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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: his soul was absent in some hell of its own. At that moment I
attained the knowledge of who it was I had before me. This was the
man of whom both Dona Rita and Rose were so much afraid. It
remained then for me to look after him for the night and then
arrange with Baron H. that he should be sent away the very next day
- and anywhere but to Tolosa. Yes, evidently, I mustn't lose sight
of him. I proposed in the calmest tone that we should go on where
he could get his much-needed rest. He rose with alacrity, picked
up his little hand-bag, and, walking out before me, no doubt looked
a very ordinary person to all eyes but mine. It was then past
eleven, not much, because we had not been in that restaurant quite
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