Painted Pearls
"Five shillings! Five, he says!
She ran as though her very life depended on it- which was, the thought flitted through her mind, not entirely far from the truth. Her boots slapped at the pavement and muck, an abhorrent squelch ringing in her ears with every knoll of filth she plunged through. But there was no time to stop, no time to think: her lungs burned with an abominable inferno that worked its aching way from the inside out, squeezing the air from her body with gleeful tentacles. Her feet were soft from disuse; her muscles quaked, screaming in hysterical protest- but onwards she pushed, on, on! As if the pack of greedy little tykes who tailed her were the very hounds of hell.
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