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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: that one was the most real to me. More real than anything in
life."
Mrs. Travers, remembering the fatal inanity of most opera
librettos, was touched by these words as if there had been
something pathetic in this readiness of response; as if she had
heard a starved man talking of the delight of a crust of dry
bread. "I suppose you forgot yourself in that story, whatever it
was," she remarked in a detached tone.
"Yes, it carried me away. But I suppose you know the feeling."
"No. I never knew anything of the kind, not even when I was a
chit of a girl." Lingard seemed to accept this statement as an
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