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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: chief he gave him an absent greeting and passed on, seemingly
wishing to avoid him, bent upon forgetting the hated reality of
the present by absorbing himself in his work, or else by letting
his imagination soar far above the tree-tops into the great white
clouds away to the westward, where the paradise of Europe was
awaiting the future Eastern millionaire. And Maroola, now the
bargain was struck and there was no more business to be talked
over, evidently did not care for the white man's company. Yet
Dain was always about the house, but he seldom stayed long by the
riverside. On his daily visits to the white man the Malay chief
preferred to make his way quietly through the central passage of
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