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door for?" she said. "O, that made no difference," I said. "O, didn't it?" she said in a contradictory way. "Well I wanted to get to the near end of the street so as to find my boat quickly by the Embankment. And now my boat, and the Embankment and--and----." "Some people are always in such a hurry," said the old black cat. And I felt too unhappy to be angry and I said nothing more. And the old witch said, "Now which way do you want to go?" and she was talking rather like a nurse to a small child. And I said, "I have nowhere to go." And she said, "Would you rather go home or go to the ivory palace of Singanee." And I said, "I've got a headache, and I don't want to go anywhere, and I'm tired of the Lands of Dream." "Then suppose you try going in through the right door," she said. "That's no good," I said. "Everyone's dead and gone, and they're selling buns there." "What do you know about Time?" she said. "Nothing," answered the old, black cat, though nobody spoke to him. "Run along," said the old witch. So I turned and trudged away to Go-by Street again. I was very tired. "What does he know about anything?" said the old black cat behind me. I knew what he was going to say next. He waited a moment and then said, "Nothing." When I looked over my shoulder he was strutting back to the cottage. And when I got to Go-by Street I listlessly opened the door through which I had just now come. I saw no use in doing it, I just did wearily as I was told. And the moment I got inside I saw it was just the same as of old, and the sleepy old man was there who sold idols. And I bought a vulgar thing that I did not want, for the sheer joy of seeing accustomed things. And when I turned from Go-by Street which was just the same as ever, the first thing that I saw was a taximeter running into a hansom cab. And I took off my hat and cheered. And I went to the Embankment and there was my boat, and the stately river full of dirty, accustomed things. And I rowed back and bought a penny paper, (I had been away it seemed for one day) and I read it from cover to cover--patent remedies for incurable illnesses and all--and I determined to walk, as soon as I was rested, in all the streets that I knew and to call on all the people that I had ever met, and to be content for long with the fields we know. End of Project Gutenberg's Tales of Three Hemispheres, by Lord Dunsany *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTEN
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