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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: asked myself, Is it all forgotten already? What could they have
found to estrange them from each other with this rapidity and this
thoroughness so far from all temptations, in the peace of the sea
and in an isolation so complete that if it had not been the jealous
devotion of the sentimental Franklin stimulating the attention of
Powell, there would have been no record, no evidence of it at all.
I must confess at once that it was Flora de Barral whom I suspected.
In this world as at present organized women are the suspected half
of the population. There are good reasons for that. These reasons
are so discoverable with a little reflection that it is not worth my
while to set them out for you. I will only mention this: that the
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