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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: After burying the last slight imprint of Nina's slipper he stood
up, and, turning his face towards the headland where he had last
seen the prau, he made an effort to shout out loud again his firm
resolve to never forgive. Ali watching him uneasily saw only his
lips move, but heard no sound. He brought his foot down with a
stamp. He was a firm man--firm as a rock. Let her go. He never
had a daughter. He would forget. He was forgetting already.
Ali approached him again, insisting on immediate departure, and
this time he consented, and they went together towards their
canoe, Almayer leading. For all his firmness he looked very
dejected and feeble as he dragged his feet slowly through the
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