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She did cling close to him , and he conducted her through narrow streets and passages out to the city gate , which led to the railway station . Nuremberg has still gates like a fortified town , and there are , I believe , porters at the gates with huge keys . Nuremberg delights to perpetuate the memories of things that are gone . But ingress and egress are free to everybody , by night as well as by day , as it must be when railway trains arrive and start at three in the morning ; and the burgomaster and warders , and sentinels and porters , though they still carry the keys , know that the glory of their house has gone . Railway tickets for two were given to Linda without a question , -- for to her was intrusted the duty of procuring them , -- and they were soon hurrying away towards Augsburg through the dark night . At any rate they had been successful in escaping . `` After to-morrow we will be as happy as the day is long , '' said Ludovic , as he pressed his companion close to his side .