The windows were grated, the doors barred; each room had the name as well as the appearance of a cell; and the very porter who stood at the gate, habited like a jailer, with his huge bunch of keys at his girdle, his forbidding countenance and surly demeanour seemed to be borrowed from Newgate. And Ann Veronica walked beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together, rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand nights” in his company. If you will think only of one trifling aspect—the inconvenience it must be to us to explain your absence—I think you may begin to realize what it all means for us. ’ ‘In one little minute,’ she said, snapping her fingers, ‘it is over and voilà tout. So kind, so good to me always. And, anyhow, it doesn’t matter to us. It is quite a descent from the clouds, isn’t it?” “I will accept that,” Anna said, “as accounting for the surprise. In a moment they were in the street outside. I am quite indiscriminate, I assure you. His mouth was sensuous but his eyes became frenetic. She sat in a chair in the parlour and regarded the darkening sky through the small casement window. It was a great relief to arrive at last at that pause when she could say to her aunt, “Now, dear?” and rise and hold back the curtain through the archway. I won't dig their graves with my nails. They struck her as cold and indifferent.
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