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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: They leave them out of novels--these incompatibilities. Young
people ignore them until they find themselves up against them.
My wife doesn't understand, doesn't understand now. She despises
me, I suppose. . . . We married, and for a time we were happy.
She was fine and tender. I worshipped her and subdued myself."
He left off abruptly. "Do you understand what I am talking
about? It's no good if you don't."
"I think so," said Ann Veronica, and colored. "In fact, yes, I
do."
"Do you think of these things--these matters--as belonging to our
Higher Nature or our Lower?"
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