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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: jealousy that had nothing now to feed upon, and Taminah found
peace. It was like the dreary tranquillity of a desert, where
there is peace only because there is no life.
And now he had returned. She had recognised his voice calling
aloud in the night for Bulangi. She had crept out after her
master to listen closer to the intoxicating sound. Dain was
there, in a boat, talking to Bulangi. Taminah, listening with
arrested breath, heard another voice. The maddening joy, that
only a second before she thought herself incapable of containing
within her fast-beating heart, died out, and left her shivering
in the old anguish of physical pain that she had suffered once
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