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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: shouts of an excited multitude had reached him across the water
only like a faint and tempestuous murmur. Presently the lights
went away processionally through the groves of trees into the
armed stockades. The distant glare vanished in the fading
darkness and the murmurs of the invisible crowd ceased suddenly
as if carried off by the retreating shadow of the night. Daylight
followed swiftly, disclosing to the sleepless Jorgenson the
solitude of the shore and the ghostly outlines of the familiar
forms of grouped trees and scattered human habitations. He had
watched the varied colours come out in the dawn, the wide
cultivated Settlement of many shades of green, framed far away by
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