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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: younger. She was a very dear, delightful girl, that aunt of
yours, of whom I suppose you know nothing more than the name.
She did not shine so much by personal beauty and a cultivated
mind, in which your mother was far superior. It was her good
sense, the admirable sweetness of her nature, her exceptional
facility and ease in daily relations that endeared her to
everybody. Her death was a terrible grief and a serious moral
loss for us all. Had she lived she would have brought the
greatest blessings to the house it would have been her lot to
enter, as wife, mother and mistress of a household. She would
have created round herself an atmosphere of peace and content
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