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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: till the war the Weatherleys had lived in style there. But now it was
too big, too expensive, and the country had become too uncongenial. The
gentry were departing to pleasanter places, where they could spend
their money without having to see how it was made.'
This is history. One England blots out another. The mines had made the
halls wealthy. Now they were blotting them out, as they had already
blotted out the cottages. The industrial England blots out the
agricultural England. One meaning blots out another. The new England
blots out the old England. And the continuity is not Organic, but
mechanical.
Connie, belonging to the leisured classes, had clung to the remnants of
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