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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: "Have to work - what do you mean?"
"It's a phrase I have heard. What I meant was that it isn't
necessary for you to make any signs."
She seemed to meditate over this for a while.
"Don't be so sure of that," she said, with a flash of mischief,
which made her voice sound more melancholy than before. "I am not
so sure myself," she continued with a curious, vanishing,
intonation of despair. "I don't know the truth about myself
because I never had an opportunity to compare myself to anything in
the world. I have been offered mock adulation, treated with mock
reserve or with mock devotion, I have been fawned upon with an
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