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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: her of having done this amongst other things intended to make her
comfortable. I should think that, for all HER simplicity, she must
have been appalled. He stood before her on the appointed day
outwardly calmer than she had ever seen him before. And this very
calmness, that scrupulous attitude which he felt bound in honour to
assume then and for ever, unless she would condescend to make a sign
at some future time, added to the heaviness of her heart innocent of
the most pardonable guile.
The night before she had slept better than she had done for the past
ten nights. Both youth and weariness will assert themselves in the
end against the tyranny of nerve-racking stress. She had slept but
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