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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: imperturbable Jonah would have stamped about the road. As for
Berry, with no one there to suffer his satire, suppressed enmity
would have brought about a collapse. He would probably have lost
his memory.
There was nothing for it, but to drive slowly forward on the flat
tire. When I came to a village I could rouse an innkeeper, and
if the place did not boast a jack, at least sturdy peasants
should raise the car with a stout pole. Accordingly, I had gone
on.
For the first five miles I had not lighted on so much as a barn.
Then suddenly I had swung round a bend of the road to see a great
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