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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: him. For instance as to her shamelessness. She was always ready
to run half naked about the hills. . . "
"Yes. After your goats. All day long. Why didn't you mend her
frocks?"
"Oh, you know about the goats. My dear young Monsieur, I could
never tell when she would fling over her pretended sweetness and
put her tongue out at me. Did she tell you about a boy, the son of
pious and rich parents, whom she tried to lead astray into the
wildness of thoughts like her own, till the poor dear child drove
her off because she outraged his modesty? I saw him often with his
parents at Sunday mass. The grace of God preserved him and made
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