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then—the busy city environs once more with 
their streets and rows and rows of houses, 
looking like so many rabbit-hutches and great 
hoardings covered with flaring advertise- 
ments. 
And the motley crowd, all so different to 
the quiet scenes of country life we had just 
left. But doubtless the great contrast makes 
us appreciate it all the more. And as the 
day was passing into night a single star, Venus, 
the star of the evening, blazed a_ bluish, 
scintillating light, before the hosts of the 
other stars had yet appeared in the domed 
firmament. Her rays (there was no moon 
yet) threw into dark contrast a rim of black 
thundery clouds that still clung to the horizon 
line. There was as yet light enough for the 
many youngsters that still played tennis and 
improvised cricket on the commons and 
grounds we passed, though the players had 
to stoop low now and intently fix their gaze 
upon the balls to see them at all. The fine 
warm evening, the first we had experienced 
this season, had drawn them out by hun- 
