The Town is grown out of our
knowledge. They have built, and are building, mansions of stucco,
and a hotel of hideous brick; a fifth-rate race-meeting threatens the
antique regatta; and before all this the savour of Trojan life is
departing. Ilion is down, and by no assault of war.
And yet--
The evening before last I passed up the road in front of No. I, Alma
Villas. The air was warm, and through the half-opened window a voice
stole out--
"In the Great Exhibition of 1851, my dear, Her Majesty the Queen,
while partaking of luncheon--"
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