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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: glad and ashamed of myself, and desperate. By means of a
penknife I contrived to break open his cabinet of cigars, drew a
chair to the window, took off my coat, collar and tie, and
remained smoking guiltily and rebelliously, and peeping through
the blind at the assembly on the lawn until it was altogether
gone....
The clergymen, I thought, were wonderful.
III
A few such pictures of those early days at Beckenham stand out,
and then I find myself among the Chiselhurst memories. The
Chiselhurst mansion had "grounds" rather than a mere garden, and
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