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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: bruised and had bled. He handed me a little measure with some of the
restorative - I forget the name of it - he had brought with us. After a
time I felt a little better. I began to stretch my limbs carefully. Soon I
could talk.
"It wouldn't have done," I said, as though there had been no interval.
"No! it wouldn't."
He thought, his hands hanging over his knees. He peered through the glass
and then stared at me.
"Good Lord! " he said. "No!"
"What has happened?" I asked after a pause. "Have we jumped to the
tropics? "
The First Men In The Moon | 
