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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: against the man that had been dinned into her ears,
I looked at her narrowly. I looked into her short-
sighted eyes, at her dumb eyes that once in her life
had seen an enticing shape, but seemed, staring at
me, to see nothing at all now. But I saw she was
uneasy.
"'What's the matter with him?' she asked in a
sort of vacant trepidation. 'He doesn't look very
ill. I never did see anybody look like this be-
fore. . . .'
"'Do you think,' I asked indignantly, 'he is
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