This is the nightmare that haunts you the first few weeks of London. No doubt if you stay longer you get over it, and find London as thrilling as Paris or Rome or New York. But the climate is against me. I cannot stay long enough. With pinched 30 and wondering gaze, the morning of departure, I look out of the taxi upon the strange dullness of Londons arousing; a sort of death; and hope and life only return when I get my seat in the boat-train, and hear all the Good-byes! Good-bye! Good-bye!
Thank God to say Good-bye!
Passage 2
35 On the banks of the Thames it is a tremendous chapter of accidents - the London-lover has to confess to the existence of miles upon miles of the dreariest, stodgiest commonness.
Thousands of acres are covered by low black houses, of the cheapest construction, without ornament, without grace, without 40 character or even identity. In fact there are many, even in the best
quarters, in all the region of Mayfair and Belgravia, of so paltry and inconvenient and above all of so diminutive a type, that you wonder what peculiarly limited domestic need they were constructed to meet. The great misfortune of London, to the eye 45 , is the want of elevation. There is no architectural impression without a certain degree of height, and the London street-vista has none of that sort of pride.
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