Dante Gabriel Rossetti Paolo and Francesca

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Nanny was left alone in the gloom. A flickering torch high on the wall only made the surrounding darkness more forbidding. Strange metal shapes, designed for no more exalted purpose than the destruct-testing of the human body, cast unpleasant shadows. Nanny Ogg stirred in her chains.
'All right,' she said. 'I can see you. Who are you?'
King Verence stepped forward.
'I saw you making faces behind him,' said Nanny Ogg. 'All I could do to keep a straight face myself.'
'I wasn't making faces, woman, I was scowling.'
Nanny squinted. 'Ere, I know you,' she said. 'You're dead.'
'I a witch.'
'I suppose you're no good at locks?'
'I fear they would be beyond my capabilities as yet . . . but surely—' the ghost of the king waved a hand in a vague gesture which encompassed the dungeon, Nanny and the manacles – 'to a witch all this is just so much—'
'Solid iron,' said Nanny. 'You might be able to walk through it, but I can't.'prefer the term "passed over",' said . 'Only there's all these chains and things. You haven't seen a cat around here, have you?''Yes. He's in the room upstairs, asleep.'Nanny appeared to relax. 'That's all right, then,' she said. 'I was beginning to worry.' She stared around the dungeon again. 'What's that big bed thing over there?''The rack,' said the king, and explained its use. Nanny Ogg nodded.'What a busy little mind he's got,' she said.'I fear, madam, that I may be responsible for your present predicament,' said Verence, sitting down on or at least just above a handy anvil. 'I wished to attract