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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: 'walking out' together in the face of opposition.
Then something unexpected happened.
"I don't know whether old Swaffer ever under-
stood how much he was regarded in the light of a
father by his foreign retainer. Anyway the rela-
tion was curiously feudal. So when Yanko asked
formally for an interview--'and the Miss too' (he
called the severe, deaf Miss Swaffer simply Miss)
--it was to obtain their permission to marry.
Swaffer heard him unmoved, dismissed him by a
nod, and then shouted the intelligence into Miss
Amy Foster |
