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...gor to direct the passengers to the waiting horse drawn carriages, which transported them to the railway station and here Helen caught her first sig... ...ly expanding rail track. The station master told them with pride, ‘This is the first section of railway to be constructed between Bombay and Calcut... ... comfortable enough and Helen and the other passengers had the opportunity to study the unfolding Central Indian panorama as the train snaked its wa... ...jetsam of the muddy waters of Mother Ganga? The barges passed little Indian villages and British ‘stations’, small enclaves of British residents. At... ... poster bed, which, instead of heavy European hangings, had light nets all around, hanging from a central point in the ceiling, to ward off the ubiq... ... down for breakfast. She breakfasted lightly and then made her way to the strange chaatri of the former Khan’s mistress. The door to the little monu... ...usual heavy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather bo... ... gown of heavy oyster satin with its long train was cut skilfully by one of the top couturiers of London to emphasise her superb figure and lovely c... ...th the Nawab to inspect the Company’s plans to build a railway to connect Mirapore to other hill stations in British India. She knew that Gavin had...

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... Read the Hebrew original. I must catch the city-bound bus. I have to change at the Central Station and travel a short distance, just a few ... ...et the impact of this sane reminder settle. "This bus is bursting. The driver skipped a few stations on the way" – I remind them – "She is smack ami... ...he dead countenance of the introspective. We tiptoed around her and soothingly vilified her former husband to her face. At first, she clung to life... ...e spent most of her time, often napping, in between shifts, in a bed still sweating of its former, now deceased, occupant. Or she would sprawl on a... ...Even at dusk, I found this city languid. All shops were closed. I had a dinner date with a Londoner, a naturalised Iranian oil trader. Throughout t... ... have never been there. That morning, in Zurich, I climbed up a hill, next to the colossal railway, and rang an ornate bell at the gate of an unassu... ...ng branches, hills vaporising into mist. I circumvented them, resting on soggy benches, the stations of my pilgrimage. The lake and road diverged a... ...nted Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Ltd. in London. The firm financed international multi-lateral co... ...srael's Agriculture Bank. Was interned in the State School of Prison Wardens. Managed the Central School Library, wrote, published and lectured on...

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... early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow ha...

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...as the red glow from the fire—which lit his eyes like 9 H G Wells adverse railway signals, but left his downcast face in dark- ness—and the scanty ve... ... huskiness of its first inquiry. “Right you are,” said the intruder in the former voice. “Stand clear!” and he vanished and closed the door. “A sailor... ...ing money was true. And all about that neighbourhood, even from the august London and Country Banking Company, from the tills of shops and inns—doors ... ...the stuff first at Chesilstowe.” “Chesilstowe?” “I went there after I left London. You know I dropped medicine and took up physics? No; well, I did. L... ...ooks hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight. I made off up the roadway to Bloomsbury ... ...e staring at empty air. “He’s got away, sir,” said one. “We must go to the central station at once,” said Adye. “One of you go on down and get a cab t... ...t have found houses locked and secured; he may have loitered about railway stations and prowled about inns, and no doubt he read the proclamations and...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis h...

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...EDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excite- ment and quite resolved to have things ... ... was first the Avenue, which ran in a con- sciously elegant curve from the railway station into an unde- veloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, ... ...e pavement, the little clump of shops about the post-office, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. The road from Surbito... ... corncob pipes in the Avenue on Sun- day morning, travelled third class to London by unusual trains, and openly despised golf. He occupied one of the ... ...otonous high-road that led up the hill, she found the image of Mr. Manning central in her mind. He stood there, large and dark, enunciating, in his cl... ...a solicitous, preoccupied, almost depressed figure. It was Doc- tor Ralph, formerly the partner of Doctor Stickell in the Avenue, and now with a thriv... ...lso some- how, and even in direct relation to that rightness, absurd. Very central in Miss Miniver’s universe were the Goopes. The Goopes were the odd... ... they 108 Ann Veronica talked of Anarchism and Socialism, and whether the former was the exact opposite of the latter or only a higher form. The redd... ...arasites. It’s a world in which the law can be a stupid pig and the police-stations dirty dens. One wants helpers and protectors—and clean water. “Am ...

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...n the necessary sacrifices of preconceptions that the idea involves in the London press. He has also been trying to clear his own mind upon the real m... ...,” a straight- forward account of the American side of the movement by the former United States Minister in Belgium, on the one hand, or in the conclu... ...ia. There is an active League of Nations Society in Dublin, as well as the London and Washington ones, pub- lishing pamphlets and conducting propagand... ...han none. There seems no reason whatever why the world should wait for the Central Powers before it begins this necessary work. Mr. McCurdy has been a... ...erious danger—that at this discussion skilful diplomacy on the part of the Central Powers may open a cleft among the Allies that has never appeared du... ...Robert Cecil has explained; they want to set up all over the earth coaling stations and strategic points, on the pattern of ours. Well, they argue, we... ...m to be interested in things African, such as the pro- moter of a tropical railway or an oil speculator has; still it is a claim. And for the life of ... ...ough the possessions of several Powers) and in the regula- tion of the big railway lines and air routes that will speedily follow the conclusion of pe... ...or else Germany has to cease to be an aggressive military imperialism. The former alternative is dismissed by most responsible statesmen. They declare...

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...hts in the upper windows of the houses as the people went to bed. From the railway station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing ... ...nto the taproom. That sobered him a little; and when he saw Henderson, the London jour- nalist, in his garden, he called over the palings and made him... ...their bedroom win- 12 The War of the Worlds dows. Henderson went into the railway station at once, in order to telegraph the news to London. The news... ...n went into the railway station at once, in order to telegraph the news to London. The newspaper ar- ticles had prepared men’s minds for the reception... ...rst, but as I went on the interest dawning in his eyes gave place to their former stare, and his regard wandered from me. “This must be the beginning ... ... able telegrams had been received in the morning from Byfleet and Chertsey stations, but that these had abruptly ceased. My brother could get very lit... ...ed even that night at Street Cobham and Ditton. The man who escaped at the former place tells a wonder- ful story of the strangeness of its coiling fl... ...London, for at that time the furious terror of the people had rendered the central termini impossible. Near this place they halted for the rest of the... ...hurry to extend the field of their operations, and did not come beyond the central part of London all that day. It is possible that a very considerabl...

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.... Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. He was never seen on ‘Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the countin... ...the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the “City”; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had... ...at the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the Daily T elegraph... ...ut that doesn’t take into account bad weather, contrary winds, shipwrecks, railway accidents, and so on.” “All included,” returned Phileas Fogg, conti... ...nty minutes before nine in the morning, between the Northern and the Lyons stations, through the windows of a car, and in a driving rain! How I regret... ... com- manding the Sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for th... ...followed them. The visa procured, Mr. Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits; while Passepartout, according to custom, saun- tered about a... ...try, as well as the manners and distinc- tions of race, is daily changing. Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cum- brous methods o... ...acific Railroad is, however, really divided into two dis- tinct lines: the Central Pacific, between San Francisco and Ogden, and the Union Pacific, be...

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...aeroplanes of an improved pattern in 1950, or that there will be a through railway connection between Constantinople and Bombay and between Baku and B... ...d, for ex- ample, a special motor track apart from the high road be- tween London and Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if ... ...onsider the diffi- culties of a single question, which is also a vital and central question in this forecast. We shall not attempt a full answer here,... ...think war good for the soul, 8 What Is Coming? and the dear ladies of the London Morning Post who think war so good for the manners of the working cl... ...ation of the nations of the earth. Because, in the face of a league of the Central European Powers attempting recuperation, cherishing revenge, dream-... ...d—as they should have been prepared when the Germans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary l... ... far they will prove able to get out of the habits and traditions of their former social state, how far they will be able to take generous views and m... ... and he is aware of a vigour of public criticism that did not exist in the former time…. How far will these men get out of the tradition of their birt... ...l stores; in many provincial towns you will find two or even three railway stations at opposite ends of the town; the streets are blocked by the vans ...

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... the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was found... ...time. Owing to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as... ...ome great among the cities of the earth. They are beaten by none except by London and Paris. But Washing- ton is but a ragged, unfinished collection o... ...ngs, a man may lose himself in the streets, not as one loses one’s self in London, between Shoreditch and Russell Square, but as one does so in the de... ...ing in the States. San Jose, the capital of the republic of Costa Rica, in Central America, has been pre- pared and arranged as a new city in the same... ...nly is imposing. The present building was, I think, commenced in 1815, the former Capitol having been de- stroyed by the English in the war of 1812-13... ....” The President and the Constitution fared no better in men’s mouths. The former did noth- ing—neither harm nor good; and as for the latter, it had b... ...i- zens of this class. The clerks and managers at hotels, the officials at railway stations, the cashiers at banks, the women in the shops—ah! they ar... ...of this class. The clerks and managers at hotels, the officials at railway stations, the cashiers at banks, the women in the shops—ah! they are the wo...

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... ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestri... ... Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my ... ...e churchyard with its open grave, which was the type of Death, to the Christian dwelling side by side with it, which was the type of Resurrection. I n... ...man’s house, write thus, after leaving it: Dear and never-to-be-forgotten friends. I arrived here yester- day morning without accident, and am about t... ...Moelfra, Anglesey. His brother is the Reverend Hugh Robert Hughes, of Penrhos, Alligwy. CHAPTER III W APPING WORKHOUSE M Y DAY’S NO-BUSINESS BECKONING... ...the brisk matron up another barbarous stair- case, into a better kind of loft devoted to the idiotic and imbecile. There was at least Light in it, whe... ...this Theatre was fresh, cool, and wholesome. To help towards this end, very sensible precautions had been used, ingeniously combining the experience o... ...4 wheelwright’s, and a Young Men’s Mutual Improvement and Discussion Society (in a loft): the whole forming a back lane. No audacious hand had plucked... ...er yellow arms were naught but bone and parchment. Slight changes steal over her; for there is a shadowy suggestion of human skin on them now. The Str...

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...st on the line between V erona and Milan through the gross negligence of a railway porter. But I doubt if they would have thrown any very conclusive l... ...uipment of a modern army advancing. Everywhere I saw new roads being made, railways pushed up, vast store dumps, hospitals; everywhere the villages sw... ...were coming out of the great grey portals of that beautiful old relic of a former school of fortification, Palmanova, the traffic became suddenly brig... ...w. They are playing loyally with the Allies for the complete defeat of the Central Powers, and that is to be achieved striking home into Austria. Mean... ...sts directing the fire of the big guns on the slopes below, or machine-gun stations, or little garrisons that sit and wait through the bleak days. Oft... ...bs into a marketing crowd? It is a sort of anti-Teutonic propaganda by the Central Powers to which they seem to have been incited by their own evil ge... ...he Jugo-Slav riddle and of the question of post war finance. So far as the former matter goes, I think the Italians are set upon the righteous solutio... ...I had not recognised before as a writer I had met some years previously in London, suddenly joined in our conversation, with a slightly different expl... ...g! One would be irresistibly reminded of a Sunday afternoon in the city of London, if it were not for those unmeaning explosions. I went to the statio...

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...ning phase of the war was fairly lucky; the forecast of an alliance of the Central Empires, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the de... ...here was strength to borrow and use…. Then suddenly man woke up to it, the railways spread like a network over the globe, the ever enlarging iron stea... ...as repeated by chemists all the world over, his apparatus was treasured in London, he became, as they used to say, ‘classic,’ and always, at every one... ...n cloud shadows, was like the opening of a great window to the as- cending Londoner. All that was very reassuring. There was the same strolling crowd,... ...first general use was to replace the steam-engine in electrical generating stations. Hard upon the appearance of this came the Dass-Tata engine—the in... ... an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded industrialism. The railways paid enormous premi- ums for priority in the delivery of atomic tr... ...lsten-Roberts en- gines one of the recoverable waste products was gold—the former disintegrated dust of bismuth and the latter dust of lead—and that t... ...e soldiers upon the board of Welt-Politik. The traditions of Japan and the Central European armies were more princely and less forensic; the Chinese s... ...smiss him to the traffic pavement below. But there was still enough of his former gentility about Barnet’s appearance and bearing to protect him from ...

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...at all the spiritual. It is most true that sentimentalism springs from the former, merely and badly aping the latter,—fine flower, or pinnacle flame-s... ...e-spire, of sensualism that it is, could it do other? and accompanying the former it traverses tracts of desert here and there couching in a garden, c... ...nk of smoke, when looking North-eastward from her summerhouse, the flag of London: and she was a person of the critical mind, well able to distinguish... ...n five months; he had spent just three weeks of that time away from her in London. No one could doubt of his having kept his pledge, although his wife... ...stract air of his; and he was ral- lied. He confessed to being absorbed in railways, the new lines of railways projected to thread the land and fast m... ... prompted an impulse in Redworth to speak to her at once of his venture in railways. But what would she understand of them, as connected with the migh... ...orway, were flushed by the fire-beams, though no longer with their swarthy central rose, tropic flower of a pure and abounding blood, as it had seemed... ...tand as others do, and we will for the future be warned to avoid the dizzy stations which cry for resources beyond a common equilibrium, and where a s... ... to black tissue, with an edge or two of discoloured paper. A small frayed central heap still resisted, and in kindness to the ne- cessity for privacy...

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...our, Mr. Stringer, the milkman. “It’s only yestiday, so to speak, when all London turned out to see a balloon go over, and now every little place in t... ... itous fireworks for all the population of Bun Hill. And then had come the railway, and then villas and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-w... ...hed out of the Otterbourne and left it a dreadful ditch, and then a second railway station, Bun Hill South, and more houses and more, more shops, more... ...ss shops, a school-board, rates, omnibuses, tramcars—going right away into London itself—bicycles, motor-cars and then more motor-cars, a Carnegie lib... ...eign on the security of his word of honour. The firm of Grubb & Smallways, formerly Grubb, had indeed been singularly unlucky in the last year or so. ... ...hey struggled along bravely, in spite of persis- tent annoyance from their former landlord, hoping for cer- tain eventualities the peculiar situation ... ...o had played undistinguished parts or no parts at all in the affair, and a central group of heated and distressed principals. A young man with an inqu... ...e taken and guarded against. There was a steel axis to the whole affair, a central backbone which termi- nated in the engine and propeller, and the me... ...ed with the mayor, and pointed out the irregularity, and the fire look-out stations were instructed in the matter. The New York police was speedily ha...

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...that are being done! It is the latter that give one so vast a sense of the former. When I think of the progress of physical and mechanical science, of... ...ss, the cross and the money-changers’ offices, the splendid grime of giant London and the crowds going perpetually to and fro, the lights by night and... ... and transfigured, but fore-shortened and confused to- gether. A clockwork railway, I seem to remember, came and went; one or two clockwork boats, toy... ... really, provisionally conceived as pigs—go up elabo- rate approaches to a central pen, from which they went down a cardboard slide four at a time, an... ...inctly my father rejoicing at the break- fast-table over the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of ... ...actory to the examiners, and test questions ex- tracted from papers set in former years were appended to every chapter. By means of these last the tea... ...r in factories. Bromstead had almost doubted in size again long before the railway came; there was hardly any thatch left in the High Street, but inst... ...ntinual pleasure to me. But these things were certainly not the living and central interests of my life. I had to conceal my wider outlook to a certai... ...ngs were done. The clean prosperity of Bale and Switzerland, the big clean stations, filled me with patriotic misgivings, as I thought of the vast dir...

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...hotel to the Boscastle surgery, and from the surgery, after some weeks, to London. But he still resisted every attempt at reanimation. After a time, f... ...f drill (the sum- mer of that year was unusually hot). This was Warming, a London solicitor and next of kin to Graham, the man who had fallen into the... ... I recollect aright.” “You came back by the trap that took me to Camelford railway station. It was close on the Jubilee, Victoria’s Jubilee, because I... ...orms, or stepping from one to another down the steps, or swarming over the central space, was an innumerable and wonderfully diversified mul- titude o... ...ll more thickly. He saw pointing fingers. He perceived that the motionless central area of this huge arcade just op- posite to the balcony was densely... ...why don’t they ask me for it instead of cooping me up?” He returned to his former preoccupation with the Council’s possible intentions. He began to re... ...nt to him that this was not the street into which the theatre opened. That former fight, it seemed, had suddenly dropped out of sound and hearing. And... ... and back, was as much as was comfortable for the farmer. But directly the railways came into play, and after them the light railways, and all the swi... ...ied about two hours, and by timing oneself carefully at the intermedi- ate stations it was possible in quiet weather to go around the world in a day. ...

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...his second book even less satisfactory from a literary standpoint than the former (and this is my opinion), I blundered, I think, more edifyingly—at l... ...based upon modern conceptions and all the Utopias that were written in the former time. Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and cred- ib... ...rical “Erewhon,” and Mr. Stead’s queendom of inverted sexual conditions in Central Africa, found the Tibetan method of slaughtering the inquiring visi... ...- state, therefore, it must be. That leaves no room for a modern Utopia in Central Af- rica, or in South America, or round about the pole, those last ... ...d in his little scrap of reserved open country. Such is al- ready the poor Londoner’s miserable fate…. Our Utopia will have, of course, faultless road... ...el in many ways. It is un- likely there will be any smoke-disgorging steam railway trains in Utopia, they are already doomed on earth, already threat-... ... pierce the mountain masses and tunnel under the seas. These may be double railways or monorails or what not—we are no engi- neers to judge between su... ... that? How could we live and where could we live? We might have a house in London, but who would call upon us? … Besides, you don’t know her. She is n... ...commu- nications will all be managed electrically from common gen- erating stations. And the trend of political and social specu- lation points decide...

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...ll valise, a knapsack, which I carried on my shoulders, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six ... ... and set down my bundles in the hundred yards or so between the pier and the railway sta- tion, so that I was quite wet by the time that I got under c... ... State with Euclid, with Bellefontaine, and with Sandusky. Chelsea, with its London associations of red brick, Sloane Square, and the King’s Road, is ... ...uded that this was to be set apart for the women and children. The second or central car, it turned out, was de- voted to men travelling alone, and th... ... lust and death, sprang up and then died away again, and are now but wayside stations in the desert; how in these uncouth places pig-tailed Chinese pi... ...ts. FELLOW-PASSENGERS AT OGDEN WE CHANGED cars from the Union Pacific to the Central Pacific line of railroad. The change was doubly wel- come; for, f... ...nged-hands. The Mexicans, you may say, are all poor and landless, like their former capital; and yet both it and they hold themselves apart and preser... ...ain fact. Their merits and their faults contributed alike to the ruin of the former landholders. It is true they were improvident, and easily dazzled ... ...e while with consolations – we two were alone in all that was visible of the London Road: two poor waifs who had each tasted sorrow – and she fawned u...

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...ll to all men. None would dare to dream of returning to the sorrows of the former time, and yet that misery was pierced, ever and again its gray curta... ...s the moonlit park—the bracken thickets rustling with startled deer—to the railway station at Checkshill and so to our dingy basement in Clayton, and ... ...scent mantles and the high cold glare of the electric arc. The interlacing railways lifted bright signal-boxes over their intersections, and signal st... ...you then how you can bring yourself to something like the condition of our former state. In the first place you must get yourself out of health by unw... ...met wrote a day or so later to the Times—I have that Times, I have all the London papers of the last month before the Change— “The man was paid off an... ...re hastily designed building in a dirty, paper-littered back street of old London, and a number of shabbily dressed men coming and going in this with ... ...r vision becomes a vision of dispersal. You see those bundles hurling into stations, catching trains by a hair’s breadth, speeding on their way, break... ...sal eyesore, marked 112 In the Days of the Comet our approach to the more central areas of—I quote the local guidebook —”one of the most delightful r... ... the whole of the superseded steam-railway system to scrap and get rid of, stations, signals, fences, rolling stock; a plant of ill-planned, smoke-dis...

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...h this story tells. Mr. Bensington was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former president of the Chemical Society, and Professor Redwood was Profess... ...ssor Redwood was Professor of Physiology in the Bond Street College of the London University, and he had been grossly libelled by the anti-vivisection... ...ely. “It might be Titanophorbia, you know. Food of Titans…. You prefer the former? “You’re quite sure you don’t think it a little too—” 8 The Food of... ...his flat with farm hunting up and down the lines that run southward out of London, and his peering spectacles, his simple baldness, and his lacerated ... ...iffness of his arm. He wished some of those confounded armchair critics of railway management could have seen it. IV IV IV IV IV By five o’clock that ... ...minated with the disappearance of Cossar’s twin realms of boot sole up the central hole. Cossar was on all fours with two guns, one trailing on each s... ...as the exponent of an extreme view. Only slowly did he win a way towards a central position in affairs.” There was no change in the essential order of... ...e Thursley Hanger he could get a glimpse of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, but ploughed fields and a suspicious hamlet pre- vented his nearer... ...larger houses of the petty great, flower-grown railway banks, gar- den-set stations, and all the little things of the vanished nine- teenth century st...