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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: determination; it was the only form that she ever allowed to see
daylight. What else was there lurked in shadows and deep places;
if in some mood of reverie it came out into the light, it was
presently overwhelmed and hustled back again into hiding. She
would never look squarely at these dream forms that mocked the
social order in which she lived, never admit she listened to the
soft whisperings in her ear. But Manning seemed more and more
clearly indicated as a refuge, as security. Certain simple
purposes emerged from the disingenuous muddle of her feelings and
desires. Seeing Capes from day to day made a bright eventfulness
that hampered her in the course she had resolved to follow. She
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