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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: inaccurate lists of figures. He was manifestly a case for a
doctor, and in the morning we got one in. He was a young man
from Montpelier, just beginning to practise, and very mysterious
and technical and modern and unhelpful. He spoke of cold and
exposure, and la grippe and pneumonia. He gave many explicit
and difficult directions.... I perceived it devolved upon me to
organise nursing and a sick-room. I installed a religieuse
in the second bedroom of the inn, and took a room for myself in
the inn of Port de Luzon, a quarter of a mile away.
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And now my story converges on what, in that queer corner of
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