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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: hard set teeth. "Oh! the fiendish noise that split his head and
seemed to choke his breath.--It would kill him.--It must be
stopped!" An insane desire to crush that yelling thing induced
him to cast himself recklessly over the chair with a desperate
grab, and they came down together in a cloud of dust amongst the
splintered wood. The last shriek died out under him in a faint
gurgle, and he had secured the relief of absolute silence.
He looked at the woman's face under him. A real woman! He knew
her. By all that is wonderful! Taminah! He jumped up ashamed
of his fury and stood perplexed, wiping his forehead. The girl
struggled to a kneeling posture and embraced his legs in a
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