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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: understood now the reason and the aim of life; and in the
triumphant unveiling of that mystery she threw away disdainfully
her past with its sad thoughts, its bitter feelings, and its
faint affections, now withered and dead in contact with her
fierce passion.
Mrs. Almayer unmoored Nina's own canoe and, straightening herself
painfully, stood, painter in hand, looking at her daughter.
"Quick," she said; "get away before the moon rises, while the
river is dark. I am afraid of Abdulla's slaves. The wretches
prowl in the night often, and might see and follow you. There
are two paddles in the canoe."
Almayer's Folly |
