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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: persuaded to use a pair of leather sandals also extracted from
that seaman's chest in the deckhouse. An additional fastening had
been put on them but she could not avoid making a delicate
clatter as she walked on the deck. No part of her costume made
her feel so exotic. It also forced her to alter her usual gait
and move with quick, short steps very much like Immada.
"I am robbing the girl of her clothes," she had thought to
herself, "besides other things." She knew by this time that a
girl of such high rank would never dream of wearing anything that
had been worn by somebody else.
At the slight noise of Mrs. Travers' sandals d'Alcacer looked
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