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THE PHIAL OF DREAD

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THE PHIAL OF DREAD

By An Analytic Chemist

By Fitz Hugh Ludlow

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THE PHIAL OF DREAD

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from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, November, 1859

First Day's Journal.

I believe that I am now safe. This part of Columbia Street is not much visited by any people who

ever knew me. The other end is in Grand Street. I doubt whether any of my acquaintance have

vivid recollection of that end either. As for myself, I was aware of neither end nor middle till

three days ago. Being in Broadway, with an infinite terror hanging on my shoulders like a cloak--

starting at every louder voice of man, woman, or child--recoiling from every rapidly approaching

stranger who looked me in the face--I naturally enough wished to get away--any where out of the

bustle. On my left hand was Grand Street; to turn into it was the most obvious method of

escaping from Broadway. So I did turn. For a block beyond Brooks's great limbo of possible but

undeveloped pantaloons Grand Street keeps a fashionable air. Thus far are whiffs of Broadway

sucked into its draft; thus far you meet Broadway faces; thus far you are reminded of Broadway--

are not quite at ease with the idea of being out of it--may at any moment be accosted by

somebody you have met before on the great pave. I walked faster, therefore. Broadway began to

fade out; the Bowery character become slowly dominant. I reached--I crossed the Bowery. Now I

began to breathe freer. I was pretty sure--growing surer--that I should not be recognized; and the

cloak lifted from my shoulders. The terror did not leave me, but it followed quietly afar off.

A strange place is the part of Grand Street I was going through now, to be sure! Quite a

Broadway by itself, though not the Broadway, thank Heaven! but a sort of shabby Broadway

come to New York to visit its merchant prince-cousin; and not being recognized as a connection,

going off in a huff and setting up for itself--the Broadway of the east to west, entirely

independent of the north to south aristocrat. Or to the speculative mind it might seem an old shell

shed by Broadway the Magnificent thirty years ago, while marble and Albert granite were

unconceived--a shell captured by the hermit crab called Grand Street, and peacefully lived in

ever since; the ghost of old Broadway, as known to our fathers, reappearing across the track of

young Broadway, yet a ghost, sociable, responsive, fearless of daylight, not to be laid. All such

thoughts as these whirled through my brain as I strode along with nervous, devious feet, and they

seemed to fight back for a short farther distance the terror. I hailed them gladly, therefore, and

indulged them.

Here were tailors, from the plethora of their shops evidently rejoicing in abundant custom,

famous, blessed, well-to-do; and all this within the world of Grand Street--elsewhere unknown.

So many green-grocers, with fresh Bermuda potatoes and cucumbers piled up in front of them,

supplying a class of citizens who never gave one thought to Washington Market. So many

celebrated doctors, all in black and gilt on the dull sides of the two-story brick houses. Dentists,

on great door-plates of tarnished mock silver--and I had never heard of them before. Mouths

filled, teeth pulled, backs clothed, children educated--all trades and professions going on--even a

wholesale dry-goods store taking up two numbers, like a Murray Street or Liberty Street firm,

and selling dollars' worths to its small neighbors who did the pennyworth business; and evidently

none of all these depended in the least on any other part of New York for a living. I breathed free

in Grand Street, more and more.

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