VII. 



A SNOWY LANDSCAPE. 



HE next scene is a city 

 and suburban one ; the 

 city is London, and tlie 

 suburbs and environs 

 tlie country towards 

 Boxbill. Passing over 

 London Bridge after a 

 snow-storm, the short 

 period since the fall 

 had sufficed to turn the crowded roadway and 

 footways into mud, so enormous was the 

 noisy traffic of vehicles and foot-passengers. 

 The big river, too, beneath the arches of the 

 bridge was busy with traffic, but wharf-roofs 

 lining its banks and many a boat and other 

 .vessel were white with vestiges of the storm. 

 Taking train from London Bridge station for 



