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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: There were a few other people there, and one or two of them
turned to watch our arrival. Berry left the car and went
straight to the nearest- a fat tradesman, wearing a new imitation
panama and a huge calabash.
"Can you tell me if this is Stoke Poges?" we heard him say. The
rest of us alighted and walked hurriedly away in the opposite
direction. Clearly my brother-in-law was in a certain mood and
no fit companion for the sensitive. Memories of the unutterable
torment, to which on like occasions we had been mercilessly
subjected, by reason of Berry's most shameless behaviour among
strangers, rose up before us. The fact that he called after us
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