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It was a broiling hot day -- one of those cloudless days, with the blazing sun beating down on the arid streets, and casting deep, black shadows -- a real Australian December day dropped by mistake of the clerk of the weather into the middle of August. The previous week having been really chilly, it was all the more welcome.
It was Saturday morning, and fashionable Melbourne was "doing the Block. " Collins Street is to the Southern city what Bond Street and the Row are to London, and the Boulevards to Paris.