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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: of exaltation and depression from which I tried to take refuge in
conversation; but Senor Ortega was not stimulating. He was
preoccupied with personal matters. When suddenly he asked me
whether I knew why he had been called away from his work (he had
been buying supplies from peasants somewhere in Central France), I
answered that I didn't know what the reason was originally, but I
had an idea that the present intention was to make of him a
courier, bearing certain messages from Baron H. to the Quartel Real
in Tolosa.
He glared at me like a basilisk. "And why have I been met like
this?" he enquired with an air of being prepared to hear a lie.
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