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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: fires, which they ought not to have left to run after a dead
stranger. This is men's work here. I take him now in the name
of the Rajah. Let no man remain here but Tuan Almayer's slaves.
Now go!"
The crowd reluctantly began to disperse. The women went first,
dragging away the children that hung back with all their weight
on the maternal hand. The men strolled slowly after them in ever
forming and changing groups that gradually dissolved as they
neared the settlement and every man regained his own house with
steps quickened by the hungry anticipation of the morning rice.
Only on the slight elevation where the land sloped down towards
Almayer's Folly | 
