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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: George, let's go to a telephone and get on to Moggs. Oh--the
order? Certainly. I confirm it. Send it all--send it all to
the Bishop of London; he'll have some good use for
it--(First-rate man, George, he is--charities and all that)--and
put it down to me, here's a card--Ponderevo--Tono-Bungay."
Then we went on to Moggs and found him in a camel-hair
dressing-jacket in a luxurious bed, drinking China tea, and got
the shape of everything but the figures fixed by lunch time.
Young Moggs enlarged my mind considerably; he was a sort of thing
I hadn't met before; he seemed quite clean and well-informed and
he assured me to never read newspapers nor used soap in any form
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