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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: could not be expected to throw away your chance of life simply that
she might cherish a good opinion of your memory. That would be
excessive."
"It was not of my life that I was thinking while Captain Anthony
was--was speaking to me," said Flora de Barral with an effort.
I told her that she was wrong then. She ought to have been thinking
of her life, and not only of her life but of the life of the man who
was speaking to her too. She let me finish, then shook her head
impatiently.
"I mean--death."
"Well," I said, "when he stood before you there, outside the
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