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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: subdued wailing became audible as the small procession bearing
the body of the drowned man and headed by that sorrowful matron
turned the corner of the house. Babalatchi had taken the broken
anklet off the man's leg, and now held it in his hand as he moved
by the side of the bearers, while Mahmat lingered behind timidly,
in the hopes of the promised reward.
"Lay him there," said Babalatchi to Almayer's men, pointing to a
pile of drying planks in front of the verandah. "Lay him there.
He was a Kaffir and the son of a dog, and he was the white man's
friend. He drank the white man's strong water," he added, with
affected horror. "That I have seen myself."
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