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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: bad, because when I dropped into a chair feeling very tired she
came and knelt in front of me and put her arms round my waist and
entreated me to cast off from me my evil ways with the help of
saints and priests. Quite a little programme for a reformed
sinner. I got away at last. I left her sunk on her heels before
the empty chair looking after me. 'I pray for you every night and
morning, Rita,' she said. - 'Oh, yes. I know you are a good
sister,' I said to her. I was letting myself out when she called
after me, 'And what about this house, Rita?' I said to her, 'Oh,
you may keep it till the day I reform and enter a convent.' The
last I saw of her she was still on her knees looking after me with
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