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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: pause. But the very obscurity of actuating motives drove me on and
I stepped out through the doorway muttering: "Everything is as
Madame wishes it."
She shot at me a swift: "You should resist," of an extraordinary
intensity, but I strode on down the path. Then Rose's schooled
temper gave way at last and I heard her angry voice screaming after
me furiously through the wind and rain: "No! Madame has no
friends. Not one!"
PART FIVE
CHAPTER I
That night I didn't get on board till just before midnight and
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