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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: And this rapidly growing familiarity (truly, she had a terrible
gift for it) had all the varieties of earnestness: serious,
excited, ardent, and even gay. She laughed in contralto; but her
laugh was never very long; and when it had ceased, the silence of
the room with the light dying in all its many windows seemed to lie
about me warmed by its vibration.
As I was preparing to take my leave after a longish pause into
which we had fallen as into a vague dream, she came out of it with
a start and a quiet sigh. She said, "I had forgotten myself." I
took her hand and was raising it naturally, without premeditation,
when I felt suddenly the arm to which it belonged become
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