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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: be. Yes. It was sudden, but it had to be."
He leaned towards her, his mouth open, his eyes wild with virtuous
anger, but meeting the absolute candour of her raised glance threw
himself back into his corner again.
"So tremendously in love with each other--was that it? Couldn't let
a father have his daughter all to himself even for a day after--
after such a separation. And you know I never had anyone, I had no
friends. What did I want with those people one meets in the City.
The best of them are ready to cut your throat. Yes! Business men,
gentlemen, any sort of men and women--out of spite, or to get
something. Oh yes, they can talk fair enough if they think there's
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