It was London now of which I thought by day and brooded by night: the huge city, the home of the wise and the great, from which came this constant stream of carriages, and those crowds of dusty people who were for ever flashing past our window-pane.
Désormais, c'était à Londres que je pensais le jour, de Londres que je rêvais la nuit, l'immense cité, séjour des savants et des puissants, d'où venaient ce flot incessant de voitures, ces foules de piétons poudreux qui défilaient sans interruption devant notre fenêtre.