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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: looks down on her bambino.
"And you love nothing?"
"I love Russia--and being alone, being completely alone. When I am
dead perhaps I shall be alone. Not even my own body will touch me
then."
Then she added, "But I shall be sorry when he goes."
Afterwards Benham talked to Prothero alone. "Your Anna," he said,
"is rather wonderful. At first, I tell you now frankly I did not
like her very much, I thought she looked ‘used,' she drank vodka at
lunch, she was gay, uneasily; she seemed a sham thing. All that was
prejudice. She thinks; she's generous, she's fine."
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