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The first sight of No. 23 Bolton-square proved rather _disenchantant_ to / the two young ladies, who for the last five weeks had talked and thought / of but little else than the coming glories of the season. As they / approached the sights and _scents_ of London, a dense fog, as it / appeared to the novices, but which was, in fact, simply an easterly wind / laden with dull yellow smoke, shrouded as with a veil every distant / object on which they looked.
"This never can be London; and London, too, in the month of May," / thought Kate, as she looked out from the window of the railway-carriage / on an atmosphere thick with discoloured smoke, through the mists of / which the summits of sundry towers and steeples, together with the / outlines of some nearer buildings, were dimly visible.