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Nocturne by Frank Swinnerton
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X. CINDERELLA


PART THREE: MORNING

XI. AFTER THE THEATRE

XII. CONSEQUENCES




PART ONE

EVENING




CHAPTER I: SIX O'CLOCK


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Six o'clock was striking. The darkness by Westminster Bridge was
intense; and as the tramcar turned the corner from the Embankment Jenny
craned to look at the thickly running water below. The glistening of
reflected lights which spotted the surface of the Thames gave its rapid
current an air of such mysterious and especially sinister power that she
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