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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: their invitation. They posed as simple gentlefolk, a little
hostile to the rush and gadding-about of London, preferring a
secluded and unpretentious quiet.
When Marion got out the white table-cloth from the
sideboard-drawer for tea, a card bearing the word "APARTMENTS"
fell to the floor. I picked it up and gave it to her before I
realised from her quickened colour that I should not have seen
it; that probably had been removed from the window in honour of
my coming.
Her father spoke once in a large remote way of he claims of
business engagements, and it was only long afterwards I realised
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