The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: other--"
She interrupted him quickly:
"Father is an innocent man. He was cruelly wronged."
"Yes. That's why," Anthony insisted earnestly. "And you are the
only human being that can make it up to him. You alone must
reconcile him with the world if anything can. But of course you
shall. You'll have to find words. Oh you'll know. And then the
sight of you, alone, would soothe--"
"He's the gentlest of men," she interrupted again.
Anthony shook his head. "It would take no end of generosity, no end
of gentleness to forgive such a dead set. For my part I would have
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