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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wells, H. G.

Wells, H. G.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Tono-Bungay: Book The Third

The Great Days Of Tono-Bungay

Chapter I The Hardingham Hotel, And How We Became Big People

As Tono-Bungay became a fat property, Edward Ponderevo rounded out, too,
and mostly about the equatorial area. His nose seemed to jut out more
forcefully now; there was his cigar, of course, and the elegant cosmopolitan
manner of his dress. Some of his Wimblehurst simplicities never left him,
though, even at the zenith of his fortunes. He always did without a
manservant, and he Zzzz'd less now. He did, however, add a secretary and a
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