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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: to lift a warning cry. Maroola leaped lightly over the low
bamboo fence, and made his way stealthily through the banana
plantation down to the muddy shore of the back creek, while Nina
walked slowly towards the house to minister to her father's
wants, as was her wont every evening. Almayer felt happy enough
that evening; the preparations were nearly completed; to-morrow
he would launch his boats. In his mind's eye he saw the rich
prize in his grasp; and, with tin spoon in his hand, he was
forgetting the plateful of rice before him in the fanciful
arrangement of some splendid banquet to take place on his arrival
in Amsterdam. Nina, reclining in the long chair, listened
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