She saw before her only a boy , who was shaking her hand with a hand so calloused that it felt like a nutmeg-grater and rasped her skin , and who was saying jerkily : .
At the thought that he would have to sit through the whole night in the cold and dark forest and hear nothing but the wolves , the echo , and the snorting of the scraggy mare , the surveyor began to have twinges down his spine as though it were being rasped with a cold file .