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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: distinctly audible, and the curtain shook during the contest,
which was mainly physical, although Mrs. Almayer's voice was
heard in angry remonstrance with its usual want of strictly
logical reasoning, but with the well-known richness of invective.
"You shameless woman! Are you a slave?" shouted shrilly the
irate matron. "Veil your face, abandoned wretch! You white
snake, I will not let you!"
Almayer's face expressed annoyance and also doubt as to the
advisability of interfering between mother and daughter. He
glanced at his Malay visitor, who was waiting silently for the
end of the uproar in an attitude of amused expectation, and
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