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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: Dr. Martineau and without waiting for his arrival took a hot
bath and got into bed. He was already thoroughly ill when the
doctor arrived.
"Forgive my sending for you," he said. "Not your line. I
know. . . . My wife's G.P.--an exasperating sort of ass.
Can't stand him. No one else."
He was lying on a narrow little bed with a hard pillow that
the doctor replaced by one from Lady Hardy's room. He had
twisted the bed-clothes into a hopeless muddle, the sheet was
on the floor.
Sir Richmond's bedroom was a large apartment in which sleep
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