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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: for her began while she was trying to tell me of the night she spent
by the girl's bedside, the night before her departure with her
unprepossessing relative. That Mrs. Fyne found means to comfort the
child I doubt very much. She had not the genius for the task of
undoing that which the hate of an infuriated woman had planned so
well.
You will tell me perhaps that children's impressions are not
durable. That's true enough. But here, child is only a manner of
speaking. The girl was within a few days of her sixteenth birthday;
she was old enough to be matured by the shock. The very effort she
had to make in conveying the impression to Mrs. Fyne, in remembering
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