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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: various affairs to settle--grinning bitterly at perfectly
respectable persons. I admit my behaviour was inexcusable,
but then my temperature was seldom normal in these days.
My dear aunt's endeavours to `nurse up my strength'
seemed altogether beside the mark. It was not my strength
that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.
I kept the bundle of papers given me by Kurtz, not knowing
exactly what to do with it. His mother had died lately,
watched over, as I was told, by his Intended. A clean-shaved man,
with an official manner and wearing gold-rimmed spectacles,
called on me one day and made inquiries, at first circuitous,
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