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left indefinite, for we needed them about all the time. I never dreamed that a fog 
could be so thick and dark. I kew [[knew]] it was the first days of November and in the very heart of smoky London, but, I thought I had seen soft coal smoke in Chicago.[[strikethrough]] but [[strikethrough]] This was a combination before unknown to me! 
How awful to live in such a place. Of course the first thing next morning I hastened 
over to Trafalgar Square and went to the National Gallery. I think now that my admiration of the Rubens was rather perfunctory. I was impressed by their size and color but in my heart I could not quite see the personages, particularly the nudes, so Fat and sloppy with exaggeration of color and expression. I humbly said to my self that I must get used to Rubens. Where as the