All I Could Do
Was, I Drew Out My Book Of The Roads, And Marked The Way We Were
Going.
Before you well know that you are out of London you are already in
Kensington and Hammersmith; because there
Are all the way houses on
both sides, after you are out of the city; just as you may remember
the case is with us when you drive from Berlin to Schoneberg;
although in point of prospect, houses and streets, the difference,
no doubt, is prodigious.
It was a fine day, and there were various delightful prospects on
both sides, on which the eye would willingly have dwelt longer, had
not our coach rolled on past them, so provokingly quick. It
appeared somewhat singular to me, when at a few miles from London, I
saw at a distance a beautiful white house; and perceived on the high
road, on which we were driving, a direction post, on which were
written these words: "that great white house at a distance is a
boarding-school!"
The man who was with us in the coach pointed out to us the country
seats of the lords and great people by which we passed; and
entertained us with all kind of stories of robberies which had been
committed on travellers, hereabouts; so that the ladies at last
began to be rather afraid; on which he began to stand up for the
superior honour of the English robbers, when compared with the
French: the former he said robbed only, the latter both robbed and
murdered.
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