Excerpt from City and Suburb: A Novel He had not realised London to himself; no country imagina tion does. Visitors know it will be large; but they fancy it large, simply as an aggregation of small towns, not with a size peculiar to itself. He could not walk about the streets like an idiot for ever. He wished he had remained for the night in the suburbs; that would have been an introduction; he wished he had taken a cab, and trusted to the instinct of the driver depositing him some place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.