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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: did. Well. I never believed in you so much as I do now, as you
sit there, just as you are, and with hardly enough light to make
you out by."
It occurred to her that she had never heard a voice she liked so
well--except one. But that had been a great actor's voice;
whereas this man was nothing in the world but his very own self.
He persuaded, he moved, he disturbed, he soothed by his inherent
truth. He had wanted to make sure and he had made sure
apparently; and too weary to resist the waywardness of her
thoughts Mrs. Travers reflected with a sort of amusement that
apparently he had not been disappointed. She thought, "He
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