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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: her all over Europe and talked in clubs - astonishing how such
fellows get into the best clubs - oh! Azzolati was his name. But
perhaps what a fellow like that said did not matter. The funniest
thing was that there was no man of any position in the world who
had disappeared at the same time. A friend in Paris wrote to him
that a certain well-known journalist had rushed South to
investigate the mystery but had returned no wiser than he went.
Monsieur George remarked more unamiably than before that he really
could not help all that.
"No," said the other with extreme gentleness, "only of all the
people more or less connected with the Carlist affair you are the
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