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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: is here for an important talk, bitcharra--if you mercifully
consent."
Evidently Lakamba's mercy went so far--for in a short while he
came out from behind the curtain--but it did not go to the length
of inducing him to make an extensive toilet. A short red sarong
tightened hastily round his hips was his only garment. The
merciful ruler of Sambir looked sleepy and rather sulky. He sat
in the arm-chair, his knees well apart, his elbows on the
arm-rests, his chin on his breast, breathing heavily and waiting
malevolently for Dain to open the important talk.
But Dain did not seem anxious to begin. He directed his gaze
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