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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: surely."
"If you think an attempt to blow up forty men at least, not a
serious matter you will not find many people of your opinion,"
retorted the officer sharply.
"Blow up! What? I know nothing about it" exclaimed Almayer.
"Who did that, or tried to do it?"
"A man with whom you had some dealings," answered the lieutenant.
"He passed here under the name of Dain Maroola. You sold him the
gunpowder he had in that brig we captured."
"How did you hear about the brig?" asked Almayer. "I know
nothing about the powder he may have had."
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