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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: the stairs at once. With just a nod to my whisper: "Take a
fiacre," she glided out and I shut the door noiselessly behind her.
The next time I saw her she was opening the door of the house on
the Prado to me, with her cap and the little black silk apron on,
and with that marked personality of her own, which had been
concealed so perfectly in the dowdy walking dress, very much to the
fore.
"I have given Madame the message," she said in her contained voice,
swinging the door wide open. Then after relieving me of my hat and
coat she announced me with the simple words: "Voile Monsieur," and
hurried away. Directly I appeared Dona Rita, away there on the
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