"Thank Heaven! I'm not
basely born. Gerald? But could he be here so
quickly?
She hastily dabbed at her eyes, thankful for the darkness that she saw had
come on outside unnoticed, dimming the room. The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a
large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly
dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal
lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and
tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and
female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in
drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. "You'll lose no time," said the thief-taker. 6. It was not simply that all the rooms were rearranged and everybody dressed in
unusual fashions, and all the routines of life abolished and put away: people’s
tempers and emotions also seemed strangely disturbed and shifted about. “But Sebastian! I need them!”
He smiled, not a smile of comfort, but a smile of
terrible menace. He cupped her small hands in the bowl of his large
ones and reassured her in the kindest manner, saying,
“You will have the finest life that Florence has to offer. Not far from the entrance, on the left,
was a sort of screen, or partition-wall, reaching from the floor to the ceiling,
formed of thick oaken planks riveted together by iron bolts, and studded with
broad-headed nails. Gerald sympathised with his friend’s irritation.
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