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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: now you must listen to my confession."
"Don't say a word," said Lingard in an untroubled voice and never
taking his eyes from her face. "I know already."
"You can't," she cried. Her hand slipped off his shoulder. "Then
why don't you throw me into the sea?" she asked, passionately.
"Am I to live on hating myself?"
"You mustn't!" he said with an accent of fear. "Haven't you
understood long ago that if you had given me that ring it would
have been just the same?"
"Am I to believe this? No, no! You are too generous to a mere
sham. You are the most magnanimous of men but you are throwing it
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