`` Never ! '' answered Proserpina , looking as miserable as she could . `` I shall never smile again till you set me down at my mother 's door . '' But she might just as well have talked to the wind that whistled past them , for Pluto urged on his horses , and went faster than ever . Proserpina continued to cry out , and screamed so long and so loudly that her poor little voice was almost screamed away ; and when it was nothing but a whisper , she happened to cast her eyes over a great broad field of waving grain -- and whom do you think she saw ? Who , but Mother Ceres , making the corn grow , and too busy to notice the golden chariot as it went rattling along . The child mustered all her strength , and gave one more scream , but was out of sight before Ceres had time to turn her head . King Pluto had taken a road which now began to grow excessively gloomy . It was bordered on each side with rocks and precipices , between which the rumbling of the chariot wheels was reverberated with a noise like rolling thunder . The trees and bushes that grew in the crevices of the rocks had very dismal foliage ; and by and by , although it was hardly noon , the air became obscured with a gray twilight . The black horses had rushed along so swiftly , that they were already beyond the limits of the sunshine . But the duskier it grew , the more did Pluto 's visage assume an air of satisfaction . After all , he was not an ill-looking person , especially when he left off twisting his features into a smile that did not belong to them . Proserpina peeped at his face through the gathering dusk , and hoped that he might not be so very wicked as she at first thought him . `` Ah , this twilight is truly refreshing , '' said King Pluto , `` after being so tormented with that ugly and impertinent glare of the sun . How much more agreeable is lamplight or torchlight , more particularly when reflected from diamonds ! It will be a magnificent sight , when we get to my palace . '' `` Is it much farther ? '' asked Proserpina . `` And will you carry me back when I have seen it ? ''
`` We will talk of that by and XXXXX , '' answered Pluto .
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