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where one could escape the publicity which would be so much a part of the real punishment. The train to London struck me as very quick, some of the way we travelled over Fifty miles an hour. But, why should it not as it seemed to me so light, and the locomotives so small, and the Engineers Exposed to the weather, but the Locomotives seemed more servicable [[serviceable]] than ours with their polished ornaments of brass and copper. I had been recommended to take lodgings at No 9 Craven St where we went and engaged three rooms on the third floor for 35 shillings a week. We had a sitting room and two bed rooms. Our breakfast to be served in our room at 2 shillings 3 pence a day each. Our fire cost us 7 shillings a week, and "boots" I did not know quite what that meant, one shilling. With "lights" extra. This was wisely