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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: of grave concern. On Lakamba's brow a heavy frown had settled,
and his lips moved angrily as he listened to his Prime Minister's
oratory. In the silence that fell upon the room when Babalatchi
ceased speaking arose a chorus of varied snores from the corner
where the body-guard had resumed their interrupted slumbers, but
the distant rumble of thunder filling then Nina's heart with
apprehension for the safety of her lover passed unheeded by those
three men intent each on their own purposes, for life or death.
After a short silence, Babalatchi, discarding now the flowers of
polite eloquence, spoke again, but in short and hurried sentences
and in a low voice. They had been very uneasy. Why did Dain
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