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For what seemed a long while afterwards -- a period which, indeed, covered three or four weeks -- Alex learnt to be intensely and humbly grateful for the convent law that would not allow any form of personalities in intercourse.
She was utterly unable to cease from crying, and in spite of her shame and almost her terror, the tears continued to stream down her face in the chapel, in the refectory, even at the hour of recreation.