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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: common lawlessness, and their knowledge of things as old as the
world. Her seduction, his recklessness, were both simple,
masterful and, in a sense, worthy of each other.
Dominic was, I won't say awed by this interview. No woman could
awe Dominic. But he was, as it were, rendered thoughtful by it,
like a man who had not so much an experience as a sort of
revelation vouchsafed to him. Later, at sea, he used to refer to
La Senora in a particular tone and I knew that henceforth his
devotion was not for me alone. And I understood the inevitability
of it extremely well. As to Dona Rita she, after Dominic left the
room, had turned to me with animation and said: "But he is
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