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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: hands rummaged in the interior, where a soft clink as of silver
money could be heard. She did not notice at first her daughter's
approach, and Nina, standing silently by her, looked down on many
little canvas bags ranged in the bottom of the chest, wherefrom
her mother extracted handfuls of shining guilders and Mexican
dollars, letting them stream slowly back again through her
claw-like fingers. The music of tinkling silver seemed to
delight her, and her eyes sparkled with the reflected gleam of
freshly-minted coins. She was muttering to herself: "And this,
and this, and yet this! Soon he will give more--as much more as
I ask. He is a great Rajah--a Son of Heaven! And she will be a
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