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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: coming down about his ears in consequence of Carter's smartness
was so terrific that it had dulled his sensibilities in the
manner of a great pain or of a great catastrophe. What was there
to look at but that woman's face, in a world which had lost its
consistency, its shape, and its promises in a moment?
Mrs. Travers looked away. She understood that she had put to
Lingard an impossible question. What was presenting itself to her
as a problem was to that man a crisis of feeling. Obviously
Carter's action had broken the compact entered into with Daman,
and she was intelligent enough to understand that it was the sort
of thing that could not be explained away. It wasn't horror that
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