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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: Nina's footsteps in the big room, opening on the verandah, which
he called his sitting-room, whenever, in the company of white
men, he wished to assert his claims to the commonplace decencies
of civilisation. Nobody ever sat there; there was nothing there
to sit upon, for Mrs. Almayer in her savage moods, when excited
by the reminiscences of the piratical period of her life, had
torn off the curtains to make sarongs for the slave-girls, and
had burnt the showy furniture piecemeal to cook the family rice.
But Almayer was not thinking of his furniture now. He was
thinking of Dain's return, of Dain's nocturnal interview with
Lakamba, of its possible influence on his long-matured plans, now
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