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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: Apparently they had not seen each other. The polite captain had
looked so stern while packing up his kit that Therese dared not
speak to him at all. And he was in a hurry, too. He had to see
his dear mother off to Paris before his own departure. Very stern.
But he shook her hand with a very nice bow.
Therese elevated her right hand for me to see. It was broad and
short with blunt fingers, as usual. The pressure of Captain
Blunt's handshake had not altered its unlovely shape.
"What was the good of telling him that our Rita was here?" went on
Therese. "I would have been ashamed of her coming here and
behaving as if the house belonged to her! I had already said some
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