Guess What? #1

Hi my friends!
Now I'm going to take you to the 19 century!
I'm sharing a fragment from a novel, a pretty famous one. It caused me a big impression about how much we have changed!

Can you find out from which novel is it? I'm waiting for your answer! Let's have some fun!

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‘How wonderfully they make this soap,’ he said gazing at a piece of soap he was handling, which ....... ............ had put ready for the visitor but ............... had not used. ‘Only look; why, it’s a work of art.’
‘Yes, everything’s brought to such a pitch of perfection nowadays,’ said .............. ................, with a moist and blissful yawn. ‘The theater, for instance, and theentertainments a—a—a!’ he yawned. ‘The electric light everywhere a—a—a!’
‘Yes, the electric light,’ said ........