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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: place of every one in the world--except the place that concealed
my father--and in some details mine. Subtle points were put to
her. I can see and hear her saying now, "No, Miss Fison, peers
of England go in before peers of the United Kingdom, and he is
merely a peer of the United Kingdom." She had much exercise in
placing people's servants about her tea-table, where the
etiquette was very strict. I wonder sometimes if the etiquette
of housekeepers' rooms is as strict to-day, and what my mother
would have made of a chauffeur....
On the whole I am glad that I saw so much as I did of
Bladesover--if for no other reason than because seeing it when I
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