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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: Ford looked at him for awhile and went away. He did not know
what the crazy-looking maze of the Chinese inscription on the red
silk meant. Had he asked Jim-Eng, that patient Chinaman would
have informed him with proper pride that its meaning was: "House
of heavenly delight."
In the evening of the same day Babalatchi called on Captain Ford.
The captain's cabin opened on deck, and Babalatchi sat astride on
the high step, while Ford smoked his pipe on the settee inside.
The steamer was leaving next morning, and the old statesman came
as usual for a last chat.
"We had news from Bali last moon," remarked Babalatchi. "A
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