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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: and rejoicing, upon startled wayfarers. Usually I took the part
of that distinguished general Xenophen--and please note the
quantity of the o. I have all my classical names like
that,--Socrates rhymes with Bates for me, and except when the
bleak eye of some scholar warns me of his standards of judgment,
I use those dear old mispronunciations still. The little splash
into Latin made during my days as a chemist washed off nothing of
the habit. Well,--if I met those great gentlemen of the past
with their accents carelessly adjusted I did at least meet them
alive, as an equal, and in a living tongue. Altogether my school
might easily have been worse for me, and among other good things
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