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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: He ceased abruptly and looked at his guests with a meaningless
stare. While they laughed he was reciting to himself the old
story: "Dain dead, all my plans destroyed. This is the end of
all hope and of all things." His heart sank within him. He felt
a kind of deadly sickness.
"Very good. Capital!" exclaimed both officers. Almayer came out
of his despondency with another burst of talk.
"Eh! what about the dinner? You have got a cook with you.
That's all right. There is a cooking shed in the other
courtyard. I can give you a goose. Look at my geese--the only
geese on the east coast--perhaps on the whole island. Is that
Almayer's Folly | 
