Excerpt from The Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature, Vol. 2: July-October, 1833
The lantern at the gate cast but a dim and feeble light upon surrounding objects. I caught a glimpse of the rags of a robber seated on the same bench with myself, also waiting his registration. A man in a brown dress laid hold of me by the hand. We climbed up stairs, we crossed galleries the wind blew moist and cold through these dismal passages my eyes, unaccustomed to this new world, discerned nothing but red stars, as it were, burning here and there; they were the lamps attached to the wall.
I am sorry, young man,' said my guide, that such are our orders but you are an secret.'
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