Sheppard's weight had destroyed the equilibrium of the plank: it swerved, and slowly descended. Amongst others, a person near the door, roused by the shriek, observed a man make his exit with the utmost precipitation. The cage at Willesden was, and is—for it is still standing—a small round building about eight feet high, with a pointed tiled roof, to which a number of boards, inscribed with the names of the parish officers, and charged with a multitude of admonitory notices to vagrants and other disorderly persons, are attached. By the by, my dear, I forgot to ask your name—perhaps you'll oblige me with it now? Hell and the devil!—gone!" He looked around in vain. You are French?" "No. Then to the Golden Ball, in the same street. They all stay!” “And you yourself?” Brendon laughed. Conceiving himself called upon, as the intimate friend of the deceased, to pay this last tribute of respect to her memory, he appeared as one of the chief mourners. The one profession, the one decent profession, I mean, for a woman—except the stage— is teaching, and there we trample on one another. What was he doing? What was he thinking? It was less than a day now, less than twenty hours. And in these crowded four weeks, what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows, only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. To have written a short story in a week was rather a remarkable feat.
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