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Excerpt from The Theatre, Vol. 15: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts; January to June, 1890
As a gust more furious than its fellows swept down the Strand, flushing its side-alleys like a wave of water, the door of a private house in Norfolk Street banged to, and a woman ran out into the storm. The wind caught her long fur boa, and writhed it aloft like a wisp of cotton; but despite its lashing across her eyes so as to blind her for some moments, she sped at a round pace over the heavily-piled asphalt, with set teeth and thighs strung to tense action, little caring apparently whither her lost fate drove her. It took her in the first vigour of madness riverwards, not that she had in her mind any immediate thought of suicide, for present fury absorbed subtler and more corroding passions; but an instinct for the quieter passages of London life drew her, dizzy with rage of accumulated miseries, to the large freedom of the Embankment, where a smell of liver-water sometimes came up to remind one of happy days spent on its surface fifty miles nearer the source, or even to suggest the freer memory of the sea.
And here in truth she found the loneliness desired of her tortured brain, for the icy flaw had swept the broad subway clean of all traffic; so that presently, in that vast picture of snow and striding bridges and dim gigantic buildings, the one dark little figure speeding onwards was the solitary sign of active life to be seen of chance gazers above.
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