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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: remained silent for a long while. Then with energy:
"There will be fighting. There is a breath of war on the
islands. Shall I live long enough to see? . . . Ah, Tuan!" he
went on, more quietly, "the old times were best. Even I have
sailed with Lanun men, and boarded in the night silent ships with
white sails. That was before an English Rajah ruled in Kuching.
Then we fought amongst ourselves and were happy. Now when we
fight with you we can only die!"
He rose to go. "Tuan," he said, "you remember the girl that man
Bulangi had? Her that caused all the trouble?"
"Yes," said Ford. "What of her?"
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