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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: it must stop. No heart could suffer so and beat so steadily for
long. Those regular strokes as of a muffled hammer that rang in
his ears must stop soon. Still beating unceasing and cruel. No
man can bear this; and is this the last, or will the next one be
the last?--How much longer? O God! how much longer? His hand
weighed heavier unconsciously on the girl's shoulder, and she
spoke the last words of her story crouching at his feet with
tears of pain and shame and anger. Was her revenge to fail her?
This white man was like a senseless stone. Too late! Too late!
"And you saw her go?" Almayer's voice sounded harshly above her
head.
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