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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: "I--of course--anything you wish, Captain Lingard."
"Call me father, my boy. She does," said the mollified old
adventurer. "Damme, though, if I didn't think you were going to
refuse. Mind you, Kaspar, I always get my way, so it would have
been no use. But you are no fool."
He remembered well that time--the look, the accent, the words,
the effect they produced on him, his very surroundings. He
remembered the narrow slanting deck of the brig, the silent
sleeping coast, the smooth black surface of the sea with a great
bar of gold laid on it by the rising moon. He remembered it all,
and he remembered his feelings of mad exultation at the thought
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