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Conrad's story is dominated by a tragic and elegiac tone, as the elderly count is first shown as a very admirable man who has settled for an orderly life as a spectator of events; but it is revealed to the narrator on his return from ten days' absence the the count's psychological composure has been completely destroyed. When the count is driven by fear and a sense of humiliation to leave Naples, the...

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