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to the same place week after week), you will not 

 find it difficult to get to the station. There are 

 places where hansoms can be found even at these 

 hours of the morning ; they are not numerous, 

 and they seem quite different from the hansoms 

 that are abroad at more lively hours, but they 

 can be found if you will look for them at certain 

 places. The best plan, however, is to live within 

 a walk of Waterloo, and as you cross the river 

 in the early summer morning, you may feel more 

 reconciled to London than at any other time, 

 and understand Wordsworth's tribute to the sight 

 from Westminster Bridge. I pass over the scene 

 at Waterloo station, which at this hour is very 

 different from the usual one, and the journey on 

 which perhaps one sleeps a little, though I have 

 found that, while it is very easy to sleep sitting 

 up in the late hours of the evening, it is necessary 

 to lie down, if one wishes to sleep in the early 

 hours of the morning. At some time between 

 eight and nine o'clock, you step out of the train, 

 and are in a few minutes amongst all the long- 

 desired things. Every sense is alert and excited, 

 every scent and everything seen or heard is noted 

 with delight. You are grateful for the grass on 



