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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: one really but Mr. Travers. .He looked and listened with
something of the stupor of a new sensation.
Then he made a distinct effort to collect his thoughts and said
with a remnant of anger:
"What have you got to do with her? She knows war. Do you know
anything about it? And hunger, too, and thirst, and unhappiness;
things you have only heard about. She has been as near death as I
am to you--and what is all that to any of you here?"
"That child!" she said in slow wonder.
Immada turned upon Mrs. Travers her eyes black as coal, sparkling
and soft like a tropical night; and the glances of the two women,
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