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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: Almayer's daughter.
Lakamba had, till then, listened to it all, calmly and with
evident distrust; now he was going to be convinced, for
Babalatchi had the proof; had it this very morning, when fishing
at break of day in the creek over which stood Bulangi's house.
There from his skiff he saw Nina's long canoe drift past, the
girl sitting in the stern bending over Dain, who was stretched in
the bottom with his head resting on the girl's knees. He saw it.
He followed them, but in a short time they took to the paddles
and got away from under his observant eye. A few minutes
afterwards he saw Bulangi's slave-girl paddling in a small
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