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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: into the old nursery upstairs, and every day she had tea with us
in the housekeeper's room. She was eight, and she came with a
nurse called Nannie; and to begin with, I did not like her at
all.
Nobody liked this irruption into the downstairs rooms; the two
"gave trouble,"--a dire offence; Nannie's sense of duty to her
charge led to requests and demands that took my mother's breath
away. Eggs at unusual times, the reboiling of milk, the
rejection of an excellent milk pudding--not negotiated
respectfully but dictated as of right. Nannie was a dark,
longfeatured, taciturn woman in a grey dress; she had a furtive
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