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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: delay, twelve months' delay, "to see how things would turn out."
There were times when she seemed simply an antagonist holding out
irritatingly against something I had to settle. Moreover, I
began to be greatly distracted by the interest and excitement of
Tono-Bungay's success, by the change and movement in things, the
going to and fro. I would forget her for days together, and then
desire her with an irritating intensity at last, one Saturday
afternoon, after a brooding morning, I determined almost savagely
that these delays must end.
I went off to the little home at Walham Green, and made Marion
come with me to Putney Common. Marion wasn't at home when I got
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