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Almayer's Folly

CHAPTER IX
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The white man's daughter took him there.

She told me so herself, speaking to me openly, for she is half white and has no decency.

She said she was waiting for him while he was here; then, after a long time, he came out of the darkness and fell at her feet exhausted.

He lay like one dead, but she brought him back to life in her arms, and made him breathe again with her own breath.

That is what she said, speaking to my face, as I am speaking now to you, Rajah.


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