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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: sombre palm groves. But it might have been a deserted settlement
decorated and abandoned by its departed population. Lingard
pointed to the stockade on the right.
"That's where your husband is," he said to Mrs. Travers.
"Who is the other?" uttered Jorgenson's voice at their backs. He
also was turned that way with his strange sightless gaze fixed
beyond them into the void.
"A Spanish gentleman I believe you said, Mrs Travers," observed
Lingard.
"It is extremely difficult to believe that there is anybody
there," murmured Mrs. Travers.
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