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A solitary foreigner, drifting about London, drifted toward Fulham on the day of the footrace.
Little by little, he found himself involved in the current of a throng of impetuous English people, all flowing together toward one given point, and all decorated alike with colors of two prevailing hues -- pink and yellow. He drifted along with the stream of passengers on the pavement (accompanied by a stream of carriages in the road) until they stopped with one accord at a gate -- and paid admission money to a man in office -- and poured into a great open space of ground which looked like an uncultivated garden.