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CHAPTER III. — THE WOODWARDS
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It is very difficult nowadays to say where the suburbs of London come to an end, and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country, have turned the country into a city. London will soon assume the shape of a great starfish. The old town, extending from Poplar to Hammersmith, will be the nucleus1, and the various railway lines will be the projecting rays.
There are still, however, some few nooks within reach of the metropolis2 which have not been be-villaged and be-terraced out of all look of rural charm, and the little village of Hampton, with its old-fashioned country inn, and its bright, quiet, grassy4 river, is one of them, in spite of the triple metropolitan5 waterworks on the one side, and the close vicinity on the other of Hampton Court, that well-loved resort of cockneydom.
It was here that the Woodwards lived. Just on the outskirts6 of the village, on the side of it farthest from town, they inhabited not a villa3, but a small old-fashioned brick house, abutting7 on to the road, but looking from its front windows on to a lawn and garden, which stretched down to the river.
The grounds were not extensive, being included, house and all, in an area of an acre and a half: but the most had been made of it; it sloped prettily8 to the river, and was absolutely secluded9 from the road. Thus Surbiton Cottage, as it was called, though it had no pretension10 to the grandeur
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