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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: Possibly he exaggerated Avebury. . . .
It was Dr. Martineau who presently brought this disquisition
upon Avebury to a stop by a very remarkable gesture. He
looked at his watch. He drew it out ostentatiously, a thick,
respectable gold watch, for the doctor was not the sort of
man to wear his watch upon his wrist. He clicked it open and
looked at it. Thereby he would have proclaimed his belief
this encounter was an entirely unnecessary interruption of
his healing duologue with Sir Richmond, which must now be
resumed.
But this action had scarcely the effect he had intended it to
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