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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: child might have spoken.
"I don't know," I answered in a tone of the same simplicity. "I
find it very difficult to be generous."
"I, too," she said with a sort of funny eagerness. "I didn't treat
him very generously. Only I didn't say much more. I found I
didn't care what I said - and it would have been like throwing
insults at a beautiful composition. He was well inspired not to
move. It has spared him some disagreeable truths and perhaps I
would even have said more than the truth. I am not fair. I am no
more fair than other people. I would have been harsh. My very
admiration was making me more angry. It's ridiculous to say of a
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