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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: I tried to draw him back to his story with questions.
"Where did you go?" I said.
"When?"
"When you left Capri."
"Southwest," he said, and glanced at me for a second. "We went
in a boat."
"But I should have thought an aeroplane?"
"They had been seized."
I questioned him no more. Presently I thought he was beginning
again. He broke out in an argumentative monotone:
"But why should it be? If, indeed, this battle, this slaughter and
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