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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.