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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: to catch a stray word through the bamboo walls, till the captain
of the steamer, who had walked up with the girl, fearing a
sunstroke, took him under the arm and led him into the shade of
his own verandah: where Nina's trunk stood already, having been
landed by the steamer's men. As soon as Captain Ford had his
glass before him and his cheroot lighted, Almayer asked for the
explanation of his daughter's unexpected arrival. Ford said
little beyond generalising in vague but violent terms upon the
foolishness of women in general, and of Mrs. Vinck in particular.
"You know, Kaspar," said he, in conclusion, to the excited
Almayer, "it is deucedly awkward to have a half-caste girl in the
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