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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: she was saying. `He drew men towards him by what was best in them.'
She looked at me with intensity. `It is the gift of the great,'
she went on, and the sound of her low voice seemed to have
the accompaniment of all the other sounds, full of mystery,
desolation, and sorrow, I had ever heard--the ripple of the river,
the soughing of the trees swayed by the wind, the murmurs of the crowds,
the faint ring of incomprehensible words cried from afar, the whisper
of a voice speaking from beyond the threshold of an eternal darkness.
`But you have heard him! You know!' she cried.
"`Yes, I know,' I said with something like despair in my heart,
but bowing my head before the faith that was in her, before that great
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