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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: take care of myself, and when I asked for protection I was met
with threats and contempt, and had Arab slander thrown in my
face. I! a white man!"
"Don't be violent, Almayer," remonstrated the lieutenant; "I have
heard all this already."
"Then why do you talk to me about scruples? I wanted money, and
I gave powder in exchange. How could I know that some of your
wretched men were going to be blown up? Scruples! Pah!"
He groped unsteadily amongst the bottles, trying one after
another, grumbling to himself the while.
"No more wine," he muttered discontentedly.
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