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Of course Alvina made everybody pay for her mood of submission and sweetness. In a month's time she was quite intolerable.
"I can't stay here all my life," she declared, stretching her eyes in a way that irritated the other inmates of Manchester House extremely. "I know I can't. I can't bear it. I simply can't bear it, and there's an end of it. I can't, I tell you. I can't bear it. I'm buried alive-simply buried alive. And it's more than I can stand. It is, really."