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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: abhorrent to him. Unfair! Undue advantage! He! Unfair to that
girl? Cruel to her!
No scorn could stand against the impression of such charges advanced
with heat and conviction. They shook him. They were yet vibrating
in the air of that stuffy hotel-room, terrific, disturbing,
impossible to get rid of, when the door opened and Flora de Barral
entered.
He did not even notice that she was late. He was sitting on a sofa
plunged in gloom. Was it true? Having himself always said exactly
what he meant he imagined that people (unless they were liars, which
of course his brother-in-law could not be) never said more than they
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