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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: punctuality. He was no great reader of morning papers, and even had
he seen the news it is very likely he would not have understood its
real purport. At any rate he turned up, as the governess expected
him to do, and the Fynes saw him pass through the fateful door.
He bowed cordially to the lady in charge of Miss de Barral's
education, whom he saw in the hall engaged in conversation with a
very good-looking but somewhat raffish young gentleman. She turned
to him graciously: "Flora is already waiting for you in the
drawing-room."
The cultivation of the art said to be patronized by princesses was
pursued in the drawing-room from considerations of the right kind of
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