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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: powdered on a purple dome. Now and then a barge swung out into the
turbid stream, and floated away with the tide, and the railway
signals changed from green to scarlet as the trains ran shrieking
across the bridge. After some time, twelve o'clock boomed from the
tall tower at Westminster, and at each stroke of the sonorous bell
the night seemed to tremble. Then the railway lights went out, one
solitary lamp left gleaming like a large ruby on a giant mast, and
the roar of the city became fainter.
At two o'clock he got up, and strolled towards Blackfriars. How
unreal everything looked! How like a strange dream! The houses on
the other side of the river seemed built out of darkness. One
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