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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: hymn-book on the top of it. There were draped mirrors over all
the mantels, and above the sideboard in the dining-room in which
we sat at tea was a portrait of her father, villainously truthful
after the manner of such works. I couldn't see a trace of the
beauty I found in her in either parent, yet she somehow contrived
to be like them both.
These people pretended in a way that reminded me of the Three
Great Women in my mother's room, but they had not nearly so much
social knowledge and did not do it nearly so well. Also, I
remarked, they did it with an eye on Marion. They had wanted to
thank me, they said, for the kindness to their daughter in the
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