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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: would turn.
"Oh, you ought to know, my dear young Monsieur, that Mr. Blunt, the
dear handsome man, has arrived from Navarre three days ago or more.
Oh," she added with a priceless air of compunction, "he is such a
charming gentleman."
And the door shut after her.
CHAPTER IV
That night I passed in a state, mostly open-eyed, I believe, but
always on the border between dreams and waking. The only thing
absolutely absent from it was the feeling of rest. The usual
sufferings of a youth in love had nothing to do with it. I could
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