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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: the red curtain, gazed upon her husband, shading the light with
her hand.
Almayer, huddled up in the chair, one of his arms hanging down,
the other thrown across the lower part of his face as if to ward
off an invisible enemy, his legs stretched straight out, slept
heavily, unconscious of the unfriendly eyes that looked upon him
in disparaging criticism. At his feet lay the overturned table,
amongst a wreck of crockery and broken bottles. The appearance
as of traces left by a desperate struggle was accentuated by the
chairs, which seemed to have been scattered violently all over
the place, and now lay about the verandah with a lamentable
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