Opposite the Cross Keys
“Thanks to Maud, I was something of an aficionado of cemeteries. Maud was forever being crossed in love, I don’t know why, unless it was that she was plain, dowdy and totally lacking in sexual attraction. Even her cornucopian offerings to the current love object of Woodbines and Cadbury Dairy Milk (the half-pound size!) seemed to pall in time when proffered by an unglamorous virgin bent on matrimony and willing to settle for nothing less.
Whenever, then, Maud was jilted, which was roughly th...ree or four times a year, she turned melancholy and addicted to intimations of mortality. At such periods, our walks together tended to take us either to one or other of Norwich’s two lunatic asylums, or else to cemeteries and graveyards, of which there was a plentiful selection within the city boundaries.
I did not much care for the lunatic asylums, fancying I heard shrieks and groans coming from behind their high walls; but the cemeteries were lovely and quiet.MoreLess
Whenever, then, Maud was jilted, which was roughly th...ree or four times a year, she turned melancholy and addicted to intimations of mortality. At such periods, our walks together tended to take us either to one or other of Norwich’s two lunatic asylums, or else to cemeteries and graveyards, of which there was a plentiful selection within the city boundaries.
I did not much care for the lunatic asylums, fancying I heard shrieks and groans coming from behind their high walls; but the cemeteries were lovely and quiet.MoreLess
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