text:  I had lived in field and forest my society had been among my fellows in rank; I had lived in magnificent halls and been surrounded by bowing attendants; and now with my mind full of the calm magnificence of English noble life I felt myself flung into the midst of a numberless miscellaneous noisy rabble all rushing on regardless of every thing but themselves pouring through endless lines of dingy houses; and I nothing an atom in the confusion a grain of dust on the great chariot wheel of society a lonely and obscure struggler in the mighty current of human life which rolled along the sullen channels of the most cheerless however it might be the largest of capitals