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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: might arrive in the course of the day.
"Letters addressed to Miss de Barral, you had better bring over to
my hotel over there," said Fyne beginning to feel extremely worried
about the future. The man said "Yes, sir," adding, "and if a letter
comes addressed to Mrs. . . . "
Fyne stopped him by a gesture. "I don't know . . . Anything you
like."
"Very well, sir."
The butler did not shut the street door after Fyne, but remained on
the doorstep for a while, looking up and down the street in the
spirit of independent expectation like a man who is again his own
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