Excerpt from Jenny: A Novel Such people as find London dull in August must be without resources of their own. They must be mere puppets worked by the social machinery, with no capacity for stepping outside their strictly conventional mode of life, or for seeing that mass of variety and opportunity for living which lies around them. The month of August to such as really love London is all too short. It passes like a dream - a dream of rest and surcease from contact with those whose perpetual presence has become incapable of furnishing further surprise in the meal of life. To the true lover of London, it is the one month of the year. It breeds a new attitude of mind. The social derelict, whether he be in London of his own choice or from the inability to get away from it, seems to find in it a new city. In a sense, it is a question of mental suggestion, it is like going for a holiday.

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