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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: of the great world during those eventful years; I had a near view
of the machinery by which an astounding Empire is run, rubbed
shoulders and exchanged experiences with bishops and statesmen,
political women and women who were not political, physicians and
soldiers, artists and authors, the directors of great journals,
philanthropists and all sorts of eminent, significant people. I
saw the statesmen without their orders and the bishops with but a
little purple silk left over from their canonicals, inhaling, not
incensen but cigar smoke. I could look at them all the better
because, for the most part, they were not looking at me but at my
uncle, and calculating consciously or unconsciously how they
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