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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: suppressed excitement. "He is a rich man. There are six men
with lances. Real Soldat, you understand. And his dress is very
brave. I have seen his dress. It shines! What jewels! Don't
go there, Mem Nina. Tuan said not; but the old Mem is gone.
Tuan will be angry. Merciful Allah! what jewels that man has
got!"
Nina slipped past the outstretched hand of the slave into the
dark passage where, in the crimson glow of the hanging curtain,
close by its other end, she could see a small dark form crouching
near the wall. Her mother was feasting her eyes and ears with
what was taking place on the front verandah, and Nina approached
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