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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: frontage that is Grosvenor Road and under Vauxhall Bridge, and
Westminster opened before us. We cleared a string of coal barges
and there on the left in the October sunshine stood the
Parliament houses, and the flag was flying and Parliament was
sitting.
I saw it at the time unseeingly; afterwards it came into my mind
as the centre of the whole broad panoramic effect of that
afternoon. The stiff square lace of Victorian Gothic with its
Dutch clock of a tower came upon me suddenly and stared and
whirled past in a slow half pirouette and became still, I know,
behind me as if watching me recede. "Aren't you going to respect
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