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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: Ann Veronica. "Just at present my mind simply won't take hold of
this at all. . . . I tell you--never mind the bill. Keep it!
Keep it!"
Part 6
They walked a long way that afternoon. They crossed the Park to
the westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle
about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then southwardly toward
Waterloo. They trudged and talked, and Manning struggled, as he
said, to "get the hang of it all."
It was a long, meandering talk, stupid, shameful, and
unavoidable. Ann Veronica was apologetic to the bottom of her
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