Excerpt from A Singer's Story
IN one of the large houses of a square in Bayswater, some years ago now, longer indeed than I Who tell this story care to reckon, a sad, almost tragic, scene was enacted one gloomy October morning.
Ah elderly lady, dressed in deep widow's weeds, and a girl of nineteen, who also wore the livery of woe, were the sole inmates of the dining-room. The girl was sobbing painfully in spite of her efforts to overcome herself, and to soothe her companion's grief, the violence of which almost bordered on frenzy.
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