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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: Ali looked in at the different servants' houses: all were empty.
In the back courtyard there was the same absence of sound and
life. In the cooking-shed the fire was out and the black embers
were cold. A tall, lean man came stealthily out of the banana
plantation, and went away rapidly across the open space looking
at them with big, frightened eyes over his shoulder. Some
vagabond without a master; there were many such in the
settlement, and they looked upon Almayer as their patron. They
prowled about his premises and picked their living there, sure
that nothing worse could befall them than a shower of curses when
they got in the way of the white man, whom they trusted and
Almayer's Folly |
