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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: am ill, when I am in urgent need of help and happiness, she
has let that wretched child get measles and she herself won't
let me go near her because she has got something disfiguring,
something nobody else could ever have or think of having,
called CARBUNCLE. Carbuncle!"
"It is very painful," said Dr. Martineau. "No doubt it is,"
said Sir Richmond.
"No doubt it is." His voice grew bitter. He spoke with
deliberation. "A perfectly aimless, useless illness,--and as
painful as it CAN be."
He spoke as if he slammed a door viciously. And indeed he had
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