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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: business now, and he did not want an office. The door was
locked, and he stood biting his lower lip, trying to think of the
place where the key could be. Suddenly he remembered: in the
women's room hung upon a nail. He went over to the doorway where
the red curtain hung down in motionless folds, and hesitated for
a moment before pushing it aside with his shoulder as if breaking
down some solid obstacle. A great square of sunshine entering
through the window lay on the floor. On the left he saw Mrs.
Almayer's big wooden chest, the lid thrown back, empty; near it
the brass nails of Nina's European trunk shone in the large
initials N. A. on the cover. A few of Nina's dresses hung on
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