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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: walk hand in hand with her. People stared covertly at them; the
band was playing; and there was the sea--the blue gaiety of the sea.
They were quietly happy together . . . It was all over!
An immense anguish of the present wrung her heart, and she nearly
cried aloud. That dread of what was before her which had been
eating up her courage slowly in the course of odious years, flamed
up into an access of panic, that sort of headlong panic which had
already driven her out twice to the top of the cliff-like quarry.
She jumped up saying to herself: "Why not now? At once! Yes.
I'll do it now--in the dark!" The very horror of it seemed to give
her additional resolution.
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